the coast is clear

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)There is nodanger; one canfreelypassthrough aregionwithoutriskofdiscovery.Wait there, watch the back of the building, and whistle whenthe coast is clear.1921,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Tarzan the Terrible, Grosset & Dunlap, page222:Seeing thatthe coast was clear, Tarzan stepped into the darkened entrance[…]1945,Christopher Isherwood,Prater Violet, New York:Random House, published[1956],→LCCN,page94:Sometimes Dorothy herself left me. She had plenty of friends in the studio, and would slip away for a chat whenthe coast seemed clear.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:the coast is clear.

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