leave the nest | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toleave home; to stop living with one'sparents.Synonym:fly the nest1987, Sue Vineyard,How to Take Care of You . . . So You Can Take Care of Others,→ISBN, page31:At about the time that the last child isleaving the nest, elderly parents move to a point of needing assistance in their lives.1998, David Arp, Claudia Arp,The Second Half of Marriage,→ISBN:Soon after our last sonleft the nest, we decided to cash in some of our frequent flyer points for a summer vacation in Europe.2006, Margie Orford,Fabulously 40 and Beyond:women,→ISBN:I never left home - I married directly after I finished my university studies, and now that my own sons areleaving the nest, starting their own lives, I've realised that I never 'left home'.; (idiomatic)To becomeindependent; to begin to act withoutsupervisionor in ways that are notprescribed.2000, G. Srinivasan,From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar,→ISBN:He taught, seasoned, encouraged, and broadened all of us while we were his students, and he supported us greatly after we hadleft the nest.2009, Andrew I. Schafer,The Vanishing Physician-scientist?,→ISBN, page162:Among the greatest physician-scientists of our time, Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein argue that the trainee is ready toleave the nestwhen she or he has acquired technical courage, a sufficient set of skills and experience and self-confidence to develop new tools when the need arises.2017, Mary Rannie,Gary Karr: Life on the G String,→ISBN:I was coming into my own,leaving the nest, combining “old school” techniques with fresh ideas. Reinshagen taught the Simandl method, but its limitations created problems that I have not resolved even to this day.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeleave,‎nest.2006, Peter Ryan,Sasol Birdwatching in Southern Africa,→ISBN, page84:Checking nests keeps the adult birds away from the nest, exposing the eggs and chicks to cold or heat, and can cause large chicks toleave the nestprematurely.

Examples:

EN: It would desolate us to have her leave the nest.
ES: Nos desolaría si dejase el nido.
EN: I figured it was the least we can do for the young ones as they leave the nest.
ES: - Si, pero pensábamos... Es lo menos que podríamos hacer por vosotros.
EN: They leave the nest.
ES: Se van del nido.
EN: He is so tired, so exhausted you can just leave the nest
ES: Está tan cansada, tan agotada que apenas puede salir del nido
EN: Turtle babies leave the nest.
ES: Los bebés tortuga salen de los nidos.
EN: Aren't you the one that told me for eight weeks that you have to leave the nest sometime?
ES: ¿No fuiste tú el que me dijo hace ocho semanas que tienes que dejar el nido en algún momento?
EN: I assume you know, my dear Höfgen that lo ving mothers rarely want their only sons to leave the nest.
ES: El retraso es normal. Las madres que quieren a su único hijo... nunca tienen prisa por echarle del nido.
EN: I was. When you leave the nest, I want you to be ready.
ES: Quiero que estés preparada para afrontar el mundo real.
EN: They leave the nest!
ES: ¡Dejan el nido!
EN: You'll probably be getting married soon and leave the nest.
ES: Probablemente te casarás pronto y dejarás el nido.
EN: It can't demonstrate its abilities unless we let it leave the nest.
ES: No puede demostrar su capacidad si no abandona el nido.
EN: Gee, our kids'll grow up together and they'll be old enough to leave the nest together.
ES: Nuestos chicos creceran juntos y ellos creceran lo suficiente y dejaran el nido juntos.
EN: Mother birds usually know when to let their robins leave the nest.
ES: La naturaleza sabe cuándo dejar que los pichones abandonen el nido.
EN: Why did you leave the nest where you belong?
ES: ¿Por qué has dejado el nido al que perteneces?
EN: We want you to leave the nest, fully fledged.
ES: Queremos que dejes el nido bien emplumado.

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