pull the pin

verb

pull the pin

verb

1

Colloquial To opt out; to withdraw; to resign.

He intended to become Castle Rock's Head Selectman when Steve Frazier finally pulled the pin, and after six or seven years of that, he intended to stand for the State House of Representatives.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

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