avenue of escape

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avenue of escape

Fig. the pathway or route along which someone or something escapes. The open window was the bird's only avenue of escape from the house. Bill saw that his one avenue of escape was through the back door.

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While the British held meetings, the armies of George Washington and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, moved aggressively toward the goal of pinning down Cornwallis on a peninsula with his back to the sea so that the French Navy might have the opportunity to seal off Cornwallis's only avenue of escape. Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution by Weaver, Michael E. / Air & Space Power Journal A major avenue of escape for troubled credit-card borrowers is narrowing. TOO MUCH DEBT? TOO BAD by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Berner / BusinessWeek All found they were capable of climbing, jumping or crawling under a 6 foot fence as an avenue of escape. Pictorial print by Hitz, LaVonna / PSA Journal			attach oneself to attach to attached attached to attack attend to attention attest to attire in attitude attract to attribute to attune to au courant au naturel auction auction off audition for augur well for authority autumn years avail avail of avail oneself of avenge oneself avenue of escape average average out average out to average up avert from avoid avoid like the plague awake awake from awake to award award to away away from desk away from it all awe awkward awkward as a cow on a crutch awkwardness axe babe babe in arms babe in the woods baby babysit for			Aventure Aventure du Bout du Monde aventurin aventurin aventurine aventurine Aventurine feldspar Aventurine quartz Aventurine quartz Aventyl AVENU AVENU AVENU AVENU avenue avenue avenue avenue avenue avenue Avenue (landscape) Avenue A Razorfish Avenue B Multi-Studies Center Avenue des Champs Élysées Avenue des Champs-Élysées Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris Avenue Global Asset Management Avenue International Capital Bhd. avenue of approach avenue of approach avenue of escape Avenue-Web Systèmes Avenues Avenues Avenues Avenzoar Avenzoar Aveo Aveoli Aveoli AVEP AVEPASTAS AVEPM AVEPY aver aver aver Avera Avera Queen of Peace Avera Sacred Heart Hospital average average average average average average average Average Absolute Control Movement Average absolute deviation Average absolute deviation Average Absolute Error

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