files out
Departs in line
Files out describes people leaving a place in an orderly line or succession, typically one or a few at a time: The jury filed out to begin deliberations, Students filed out of the auditorium after the assembly.
The image is of documents arranged in a file—sequential, organized, unhurried.
The opposite action is files in.
- fire drillEmergency evacuation practice
- queueOrdered waiting line
- one by oneIn succession, separately
- marchRhythmic group walk
- processionFormal moving line
flow · corridor · narrow passage · doorway · discipline · parade · cooperation · synchronization · disperse · formation · line up · coordination · routine · exodus · rhythm · shuffle · path · exit
manner of group movement
files outstampedes
Panicked mass flights
pours out · bursts out · bolts · scatters
movement vs. stasis
files outstays put
Remains in place
remains · stays in place · gathers · assembles · congregates