parting of the ways

Tony Munday: "At some point, there was a hell of a lot of bricks and other things being thrown in our direction. My main concern was just to look down to the ground because I didn't want to be blinded. We were almost like skittles, completely defenceless… Not knowing what the strategy was of the people in charge, we're thinking 'Are we just cannon fodder?'… And then there was a parting of the ways, someone shouted out, and officers on horseback went through, followed by others with short shields."

And in the transfer portal era, that kind of disconnect results in a parting of the ways.

“They were going to play out the string, and at the end of the year there would be a parting of the ways.”

In Moore's first game in charge following Town's second parting of the ways with Neil Warnock, it had for most of the evening looked as if another former Huddersfield manager would end up triumphant, Sky Blues boss Mark Robins.

The prize came at a parting of the ways with his mentor Rutherford, as they differed about new equipment to advance their research.