单词 | hightail it |
释义 | hightail it (once / 187609 pages) v WORD FAMILY hightail it: hightailed it, hightailing it, hightails it USAGE EXAMPLES“Well, she sure got up and hightailed it when I come in and bulldozed poor Gilly clean through the carpet.” Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins(1978) Somoza hightailed it when his downfall was imminent, robbed the national treasury and fled to Miami, leaving Nicaragua deeply in debt. US News(Sep 20, 2016) “You mean the psycho-mutts? Probably hightailed it all the way back to Berlin,” said Curly. Carl Hiaasen, Hoot(2002) v flee; take to one's heels; cut and run Syn|Hypo|Hyper break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail flee, fly, take flight run away quickly skedaddlerun away, as if in a panic breakmake a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing stampederun away in a stampede abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run offrun away; usually includes taking something or somebody along elope, run offrun away secretly with one's beloved break loose, escape, get awayrun away from confinement high-tailretreat at full speed defect, desertdesert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army go away, go forth, leave go away from a place |
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