I need to learn some expressions [closed]
I saw this short sentence in the Merriam Webster.
"slopes off into the night" — Wolcott Gibbs
What does "slopes off into the night" mean in this case?
Thanks.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary doesn't really give a good explanation of this.
From the Oxford Dictionary Online
British, informal slope off: Leave unobtrusively, typically in order to evade work or duty.
‘the men sloped off looking ashamed of themselves’
So it means to leave unobtrusively, under the cover of darkness.