into the sunset
12
6.0
- idiom
- Literature
:
hacia un final feliz
- I ride off into the sunset.
- ride into the sunset
- sailed off into the sunset
- walk off into the sunset
And then he let's go of her hand and she leaves her alone, and he walks off into the sunset with all of his admirers.
- And then he let's go of her hand and she leaves her alone, and he walks off into the sunset with all of his admirers.
- But since they do not feel deeply or have close relationships deeply, they are able to do these superficial runs into the sunset.
- One last time, just to make sure that you can go off into the sunset and maintain that level of life or lifestyle, which has now, you know, gotten more expensive.
Examples
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Cowboys and cowgirls, it's time to ride off into the sunset.
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You think, oh, I'll just ride into the sunset and all of a sudden reality hits and you realize, oh, this is really hard.
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Anyway, it's time for me to ride into the sunset.
Fiction book (1996) -
But will he ride off into the sunset?
Blog text (12) -
I think we're all riding off into the sunset.
Blog text (24) -
Should he be noble and ask for nothing, just ride off into the sunset with a tip of his hat?
Blog text (9) -
All I want to see is one more appearance of Kirk Prime, where he rides off into the sunset, alive and well, and off to the next adventure.
Blog text (12) -
All I wanted was for Westley and Buttercup to ride off into the sunset and tell each other "As you wish" all the days of their lives.
Blog text (1) -
Violet and Lancelot meet again in Bournemouth and sail off into the sunset, presumably to the Isle of Wight.
Blog text (24) -
After finishing her novel, she envisioned herself riding off into the sunset with her beloved characters.
Synonyms
3
6.5
Leave a situation happily to begin a new life
1
6.5
Leave a place happily at the end of a story or event
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal meaning ('into' + 'sunset') clearly conveys movement toward the time/place of sunset, so a learner will grasp the spatial/temporal image from the constituents. However, the conventionalized narrative sense—leaving for a happy, romantic, or ideal future ('happily ever after')—is a cultural/metaphorical extension not fully predictable from the words alone, making the expression only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase into the sunset comes from old Western films where the hero rides away on a horse toward the setting sun. That calm picture stands for a 'happy ending' or a 'new beginning', so today the phrase means moving toward a happy, romantic, or ideal future.