Exʹit (Latin, he goes out)

A theatrical term placed at the point when an actor is to leave the stage. We also say of an actor, Exit So-and-so—that is, So-and-so leaves the stage at this point of the drama.

He made his exit. He left, or died: as, “He made his exit of this life in peace with all the world.” Except in the drama, we say, “made or makes his exit.” (See above.)

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances.”

Shakespeare: As You Like It, ii. 7.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.