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Answer for the clue "Stop filming with single light out ", 11 letters:
cut and run

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cut and run or cut-and-run is an idiomatic verb phrase meaning to "make off promptly" or to "hurry off". The phrase originated in the 1700s as describing an act allowing a ship to make sail quickly in an urgent situation, either by cutting free an anchor ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context nautical English) To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled. 2 (context by extension English) To hurry away; to escape. 3 (context military English) To abandon a position as quickly as possible.

Usage examples of cut and run.

I thought, things go wrong, I can always just cut and run, no problem.

That can easily happen, you know, when you're an old man with a shaky wrist and a cloudy eye, too stiff in the joints even to cut and run.

I mean, even in disguise, you never know - I might have to cut and run, and I'd rather have two sound pins for that, what?

It was like walking with a badly wound up clockwork doll as we descended to the street, but once we were out in the sunshine and the chattering Broadway crowds she became easier, possibly because I showed no tendency to cut and run or bawl for a copper.

The leader who got 'em in this mess would never be able to show his face at a dance if he just cut and run.

When the numbers start moving into the neighborhood of five to one against you, it's time to cut and run, I always say.

And that's why I called ever'body together, now: We need to talk this whole thing out and figure what's going to be the best for us to do-cut and run up to that valley up or stand and fight the fuckers off here, then go up ttf the valley.