pick up one's marbles and go home

English

Verb

pick up one's marbles and go home (third-person singular simple present picks up one's marbles and goes home, present participle picking up one's marbles and going home, simple past picked up one's marbles and went home, past participle picked up one's marbles and gone home)

1. (informal, idiomatic) To abruptly leave or abandon a situation or activity in which one is dissatisfied with the way it is progressing.