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cut and run
verb as in abscond
verb as in absquatulate
verb as in break
verb as in depart
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verb as in escape
verb as in flee
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verb as in fly
verb as in hightail
verb as in lam
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- bail out
- break out
- burst out
- cut loose
- duck out
- fly the coop
- get away
- get away with
- get off
- give someone the slip
- go scot-free
- make a getaway
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- play hooky
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take it on the lam
- take on the lam
- work out of
- wriggle out
verb as in make off
verb as in part
verb as in run
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Example Sentences
Today the Gipper would be considered lily-livered, a “ surrender monkey,” another member of the “cut-and-run crowd.”
But it is reassuring that this withdrawal does not have, about it, the feel of a totally cynical cut-and-run.
Ill betide the Hun who dared to make a cut-and-run raid upon Dover.
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On this page you'll find 561 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cut and run, such as: bolt, break, decamp, disappear, escape, and fade.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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