Fly the coop

Fly the coop means to escape. The building on a small farm where chickens live is a coop. If the door is open, a chicken will escape.

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English Idiom: Fly the coop

To fly the coop means to escape.


Think about chickens on a small farm.

The little building in which people keep chickens is called a chicken coop.

Sometimes, when the door is open, a chicken will escape.

If you are in a situation you do not like, such as a boring meeting or dinner party, you could use a phone call from your babysitter as an excuse to fly the coop or escape that unpleasant situation.

Prisoners in jail are in a situation similar to the chickens in a coop.

I would think most prisoners dream about flying the coop.

Some are successful, but they usually get caught by the long arm of the law eventually.


This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).  

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.  

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.



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