Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
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Examples for "run"
1The banks' recent run of good form came to an end today.
2This year the work will likely run out months earlier, Olson said.
3The critical issue now is whether the run of good news continues.
4I had run quite far and was a long way from home.
5Rice said the two shows would run at different times of year.
1Last year his parents decided he should try to escape to Europe.
2How can this visit help me answer the question I can't escape?
3Neither side will escape challenge: this research will impact on the vote.
4They allow people to escape their reality and enter a new one.
5Now he decided a different course of escape might be in order.
1The next moment the boy heard Thede moving in the bunk above.
2In the darkness, cylinder in hand, I crept softly from the bunk.
3When Harold was in his bunk the little maid was brought in.
4Long, frightening howls carried by the wind into our open bunk windows.
5The man in the bunk in the lumbermen's camp is wild again.
1Cash and calls weren't the only thing Massino got on the lam.
2Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me.
3We're both on the lam now. He glanced idly toward the woman.
4I'm liable to lam your head off, threatened the big man sullenly.
5De way that gal lam me across the head was a caution!
1Most tourists want to see the animals, not the just the scat.
2Tells how Mozart, Liszt, and Brahms used scat, and its modern development.
3The tail end of a scat of rain beat on their faces.
4Nodelman kept me waiting, without offering me a scat, a good half-hour.
5I swear, the stuff tasted like armadillo scat mixed with swamp water.
1But we can't give them a lick of warning or they'll scarper.
2A commotion around the van followed and eventually the driver had to scarper.
3We wait below, light fuses and scarper when the fuckin' train hits the bridge.
4It's no wonder they scarper off so quickly.
5Not like with Liz Stride, just a slash at the throat and a scarper in the dark.
1Let us take to the woods and we will give them hell.
2We cannot all take to the woods and swamps as Thoreau did.
3I saw nothing for it but to take to the woods.
4I always have a bite with me when I take to the woods.
5For you and yours must even take to the woods for a while.
1Didn't I give you six hours to fly the coop?
2Because the goose was about to fly the coop.
3We'll leave you here and fly the coop.
4Just in case you were wondering where the expression ' fly the coop' comes from, they're amazing escape artists.
5Or if I asked the same question differently, was there a connection between our raid on Charabi's office and Bian's decision to fly the coop?
1It's time to break away from the failing and dysfunctional EU system.
2The answer is not to break away, though, but to stay united.
3Why does this province, specifically, want to break away from South Africa?
4There's a strong possibility the Ukraine will break away and join him.
5Anxiety and fear will remain until you deliberately break away and commit.
1We came all the way across town to turn tail and run?
2But he couldn't very well turn tail and bolt off the poop.
3Half the children, upon seeing their leader turn tail and flee, followed suit.
4Fala expected Kahg to turn tail and run, try to gain sky room.
5He could not turn tail in the face of such an exalted opinion.
1Common sense: I was supposed to run away, yell for help, etc.
2Officials said he had run away from his family after an argument.
3Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
4You said you had no idea he was going to run away.
5She wanted to believe Race's beautiful vision-thatthey could run away together.
1That likely the car would head for the hills, where the I.W.W.
2That cat's gonna head for the hills the minute he sees an opportunity.
3In a real revolt, the rich and powerful usually head for the hills, terrified.
4When I tell him that, he'll head for the hills.
5But remember, if you start a war, my friend, you better head for the hills.
1That assault team will hightail it back to their base of operations.
2I understand if you want to hightail it out of here.
3They're afraid if they let on we're here, we'll hightail it somewhere else.
4With this out-of-space drive they hightail it among the stars.
5If you get into trouble, you can't just hightail it back inside the spaceship.
6Then he gestured for me to hightail it down there.
7No, I think asking would be safe, except maybe she'd hightail it out of here.
8They drive you home, take their scooter out, and then hightail it back to headquarters.
9The sooner her father-in-law could hightail it back upstate.
10Now you'll never have to hightail it back to the lodge to quench your thirst.
11You'd better hightail it over here after work.
12Study the shooter just before he makes the decision to drop his weapon and hightail it.
13When Tyne tells you Ruben is back in Yellowknife, you hightail it out here from Quebec.
14What if VanHorn didn't hightail it back here?
15If caught in a storm, either hightail it home or hunker under cover and let the weather pass.
16I boomeranged back to New York City scheming on how quickly I could hightail it back to Paris.
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