hightail it out of
hightail it out of (somewhere)
To depart at once and with haste. A reference to the way some animals raise their tails when fleeing. We hightailed it out of the party when we heard police sirens approaching. We won't have much time to get to the airport, so once you're finished work, you just hightail it out of there, OK? We all hightailed it out of the office once the smoke alarm started going off.
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hightail it out of (somewhere)
Rur. to run or ride a horse away from somewhere fast; to leave in a hurry. (Typically heard in western movies.) Here comes the sheriff. We'd better hightail it out of here. Look at that guy go. He really hightailed it out of town.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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We sense that even as the photographer slowly, carefully took in her surroundings, she was poised to
hightail it out of there at any moment, should the unwelcome sound of another's footsteps be heard in the distance.
Luckily, Hastie managed to
hightail it out of there before the dark exploiters of the world could catch him.
"Then you take that cage and you put it in the middle of a city, you open it, and you
hightail it out of there.
"If the canaries fell dead, the miners would
hightail it out of there," Scannell said.
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