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单词 to pull foot
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to pull foot
a. colloquial (chiefly U.S. and Caribbean). to pull foot: to take to one's heels, run away; to hurry, run as fast as possible. Formerly also †to pull it in same sense.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee
fleec825
afleeeOE
atrina1000
atfleec1000
to run awayOE
to turn to or into flighta1225
to turn the ridgec1225
atrenc1275
atshakec1275
to give backa1300
flemec1300
startc1330
to take (on oneself) the flighta1500
to take the back upon oneselfa1500
fly1523
to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530
to flee one's way1535
to take to one's heels1548
flought?1567
fuge1573
to turn taila1586
to run off1628
to take flighta1639
refugea1641
to run for it1642
to take leg1740
to give (also take) leg-bail1751
bail1775
sherry1788
to pull foot1792
fugitate1830
to tail off (out)1830
to take to flight1840
to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845
guy1879
to give leg (or legs)1883
rabbit1887
to do a guy1889
high-tail1908
to have it on one's toes1958
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > run > run fast or at full speed
to pull it1792
to run (also be off) like a redshank1809
sky1824
tattera1825
peel1860
pelter1906
hare1908
1792 Trials at Large II. 113 He pulled Foot over Essex-bridge, and down towards the Piazzas in Essex-street, and witness ran after him, crying, stop robber!
1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 98 She flew straight out of sight, As fast as she could pull it.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 109 One of my ladies chose to pull foot, and did not return..till this morning.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. xi. 351 The whole crew pulled foot as if Old Nick had held them in chase.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pull feeat. ‘Thoo'l hae te pull feeat te owertak 'em’.
1922 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 15 Sept. 16/3 We wriggled backward out of sight. Then, rising, we turned and pulled foot for our canoe.
1954 Western Folklore 13 24 The fourteen-year-old Willie Kelley..decided that the game was not worth the candle and decided to pull foot out of the Big Bend region.
1989 J. D'Costa & B. Calla Voices in Exile 31 Peter him pull foot one day..Peter was a runaway.
2002 G. Vanderhaeghe Last Crossing xvii. 191 Just you see if I don't run those scoundrels off in short order... ‘I won't say it again. Pull foot.’
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