part company

English

Verb

part company (third-person singular simple present parts company, present participle parting company, simple past and past participle parted company)

(idiomatic) To end a relationship
(idiomatic, of two or more people) to separate; go their own way
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
  Episode 16
  The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

Translations

To end a relationship

Dutch: scheiden (nl),

French: divorcer (fr),

To separate; go their own way

Dutch: uit elkaar gaanieder zijn eigen weg gaan

French: se séparer (fr),

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