to march out
- phrasal verb
- /mɑrtʃ aʊt/
- You're gonna turn around and march out of here now.
We were marched out, put into Paddy wagons and registered.
- We were marched out, put into Paddy wagons and registered.
- And every morning we marched out of school around the flagpole and pledged allegiance after school.
Examples
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The soldiers turn to the right and start to march out past the reviewing stand.
Fiction book (1998) -
The soldiers lined up and began to march out onto the parade ground.
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You have one minute to march out that door.
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Or you can march out of my apartment and never call me again.
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"Max!" he called and broke away from the other troops he had marched out with.
Fiction book (1992) -
They marched out single-file, hands in the air.
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Trailed by the others, Val and Earl march out and leap into their truck, Val driving now.
Fiction book (1990) -
Monty slid his barely touched drink in front of me, then marched out of the drugstore.
Fiction book (1993) -
On the day after a dragon was killed at Stronghold, Amiel marched out of Medawari.
Fiction book (1992) -
There was never a happier lot of men that marched out of Andersonville Prison on March 20th, 1865 on the way to freedom, not that any of them were in a physical condition to cause happiness, but because of the horrors they were leaving and the comforts they hoped soon to find.
Synonyms
To move together in a group, often slowly and in an orderly way
To come out of a narrow place into a wider open area
Antonyms
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to leave a confined or sheltered place in a marching formation' is directly and compositionally derived from 'march' (to walk in organized formation) plus 'out' (away from the interior). This motion verb + particle pattern is common and cross-linguistically straightforward, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb march out comes from soldiers leaving a hall, camp, or canyon in neat rows to go into open ground. march means to walk in step and out shows leaving, so the phrase means 'to leave a sheltered or narrow place in rows'.