pick up one's marbles and go home (English, verb)
expansion: pick up one's marbles and go home (third-person singular simple present picks up one's marbles and goes home, present participle picking up one's marbles and going home, simple past picked up one's marbles and went home, past participle picked up one's marbles and gone home)
Senses:
glosses: To abruptly leave or abandon a situation or activity in which one is dissatisfied with the way it is progressing.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: picks up one's marbles and goes home
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: picking up one's marbles and going home
tags: participle
present
form: picked up one's marbles and went home
tags: past
form: picked up one's marbles and gone home
tags: participle
past