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The art of leaving something behind faster than you can explain why.
means Giving up or walking away from a person, place, thing, or commitment, usually completely and often suddenly.
from From Old French a bandon, meaning under someone else's control or left to their power — to abandon was literally to surrender something to fate's whims.
Legal weightAbandoning property can transfer ownership to whoever finds it.
Built-in surrenderThe original sense meant yielding control, not just leaving.
Naval ruleAbandon ship is a formal order, not panic.