run away to sea idiom (also go to sea)
（男孩或年轻男子离家）当海员，当水手
(especially of a boy or young man) to leave your family and become a sailor
My grandfather ran away to sea when he was twelve. 我的祖父在十二岁时就离家去当水手。
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