vote with one's feet

Meaning: (idiomatic)To express one'spreferencesthrough one's actions, byvoluntarilyparticipatingin orwithdrawingfrom an activity, group, or process; especially, by physicalmigrationto leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.1958December 8, "Most Useful Satellite",Time:But Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question—on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, stillvote with their feetby fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week.1973April 2, “The Ph.D. Glut”, inTime:That would enable the students to "vote with their feet" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available.1985May 13, "Business Notes Airlines",Time:TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengersvote with their feet."1991December 10, “IAP needs you”, inThe Tech:Please,vote with your feet—participate in IAP.2002, Jim Cramer,Confessions of a Street Addict, Simon and Schuster,,→ISBN, page104:Then again, I knew that shareholder democracy meant only that I shouldvote with my feetif I didn't like what management was doing.2005, Diane E. Davis,Political Power and Social Theory, Elsevier,,→ISBN, page188:The conventional wisdom ca. 1980 was that if an investor did not like the way a firm was managed, she couldvote with her feet, moving her money elsewhere.2022April 20, Andrew Roth, “Russia’s latest military failures polarise society even more”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:Several big names havevoted with their feet. The Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday that Lev Khasis, a former senior executive at the state-owned Sberbank, had left the country for the US.

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