| 单词 | hightail it |
| 释义 | hightail itSEE SYNONYMS FOR hightail it ON THESAURUS.COM 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] Words nearby hightail ithigh-strung, high style, hight, high table, hightail, hightail it, High Tatra, high tea, high-tech, high technology, high-tension The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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