step aside

Finally convinced it is time to step aside, company founders often decide it takes two people to fill their big shoes—despite the mixed record of companies led by co-CEOs.

If you can’t handle the pressure, step aside.

Macron has refused to step aside.

He was forced to step aside from a nomination as president of the L.A. chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, lost an opportunity to work at a new law firm, had his bank accounts temporarily closed and suffered incalculable representational damage, she said.

Now she knows it is time to step aside.