Float
Take off
Take off verb - To leave a place often for another.
Both terms in one sentence
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Inverted when the Wizard's hot-air balloon starts to take off without Dorothy: instead of one person being about to fall, it's the other person about to float away, but otherwise it plays out the same.
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