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Meanings of hightail it in English

Portuguese
meter o rabo entre as pernas
Catalan
escapolir-se

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.

      meter o rabo entre as pernas
      Usage of hightail it in English
      1
      That assault team will hightail it back to their base of operations.
      Terminal
      2
      I understand if you want to hightail it out of here.
      Watch them die
      3
      They're afraid if they let on we're here, we'll hightail it somewhere else.
      Kafka on the Shore
      4
      With this out-of-space drive they hightail it among the stars.
      Islands of Space
      5
      If you get into trouble, you can't just hightail it back inside the spaceship.
      An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
      6
      Then he gestured for me to hightail it down there.
      Exit strategy
      7
      No, I think asking would be safe, except maybe she'd hightail it out of here.
      Fortunate harbor
      8
      They drive you home, take their scooter out, and then hightail it back to headquarters.
      Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
      9
      The sooner her father-in-law could hightail it back upstate.
      While galileo preys
      10
      Now you'll never have to hightail it back to the lodge to quench your thirst.
      Wired
      11
      You'd better hightail it over here after work.
      The athena project: a thriller
      12
      Study the shooter just before he makes the decision to drop his weapon and hightail it.
      Mortal Allies
      13
      When Tyne tells you Ruben is back in Yellowknife, you hightail it out here from Quebec.
      Bones Are Forever
      14
      What if VanHorn didn't hightail it back here?
      Running scared
      15
      If caught in a storm, either hightail it home or hunker under cover and let the weather pass.
      Climbing Magazine
      16
      I boomeranged back to New York City scheming on how quickly I could hightail it back to Paris.
      Ebony
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