Break up
Break up verb - To cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization.
Both terms in one sentence
- There was also the episode where Bill and Dale break up their friendship all because Dale left an empty beer can on Bill's lawn and refused to pick it up.
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Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel: they keep it a secret for half an episode, get found out, get fired, hold the empty school hostage, then pretend to break up.
Source: Secret Relationship - The temple has incredibly creepy background music that plays as you slowly make your way through one dim, empty space after another, almost wishing for an enemy to come out and break up the silence and stillness.
Source: Nothing Is Scarier / Video Games
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