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hightail it
Idioms and Phrases
Go as fast as possible, especially in leaving; rush off. For example, With the police now searching for them, they hightailed it out of town , or When Jane remembered it was his birthday, she hightailed it to the bakery for a cake . This expression alludes to the raised tail of a rabbit or other animal that is fleeing. [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
McCartney happened to be visiting Lennon in New York at the time and they briefly considered shocking the world by hightailing it down to Rockefeller Center, but the idea was abandoned.
Set on exacting retribution, Doll hightails it back to his home in Los Angeles to even the score with the real murderer and the cartel’s bagman, all while keeping nominally true to Buddhist principles.
In most cases, drivers might hightail it out of there.
Eventually, Berkoff couldn’t stand it any longer and, in a fury hightailed it to LAX in a rental car that bore the dents of his anger, leaving the production without a Goldberg.
I turned down the film, broke up with John and hightailed it out of town.
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