hightail
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When Faye’s beloved college professor dies suddenly and she’s asked to speak at a memorial ceremony, nostalgia and flattery make her drop everything and hightail it back to the leafy northeastern college town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Read on, study up, then hightail it to your nearest butcher.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2022
Pro tip: Come at 4 p.m. when doors open before all the downtown shoppers and the pre- and post-dinner crowd hightail it to this bar.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
“I feel hopeful but not necessarily optimistic,” said Kimmel, who planned to hightail it out of Washington after the show.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2017
“We cannot just hightail it out of here and leave everyone to that man’s nonexistent mercy, Jane!”
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Carrillo and Peña track Gacha in Cartagena, Murphy takes steps to protect Gaviria, and Connie hightails it out of town with Elisa before her husband gets charged with treason for harboring a Communist fugitive.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2015
In the show, Gallagher plays a shameless - and penniless - producer who hightails it out of Chicago after his stage version of “Joan of Arc” flops.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2015
In the show, Gallagher plays a shameless — and penniless — producer who hightails it out of Chicago after his stage version of "Joan of Arc" flops.
From US News ● Mar. 13, 2015
And then there’s the Setrakian voiceover narration at the end, which ridiculously mentions “a small world,” while the Scooby gang hightails it and tries to mentally regroup against the fiery New York skyline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2014
“Brandon’s only down here to listen to the conversation. He’s not supposed to talk at all. And the second we hear Granddad’s car turning into the yard, he hightails it back to his room.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
I hightailed it back here, to the north shore of Hawaii, and I thought that was it.
From Fox News ● Sep. 14, 2021
Then she downed her drink and hightailed it back into the auditorium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2019
After he hightailed it to Australia with his mistress and the couple divorced, Muriel co-founded Femina, Britain’s first feminist press.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2014
"This is my dare to be great situation," he was heard muttering, along with something about his heart and a pen, as he hightailed it out of the Cavs' facility.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2014
We thanked the woman and hightailed it out of there, eager to make our flight back to the United States.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The brief video ends with the deer hightailing it away from the school.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
As we entered the city, we saw Saudi troops in commandeered fire trucks, hightailing it south to escape the fighting.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
The call was always in the back of Darrin Phillips’ mind, threatening to send him hightailing out of the gym to catch the next flight home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
According to Altucher, the pandemic has turned Midtown into Ghost Town and sent his Wall Street buddies hightailing it for the exit, probably never to return.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2020
There’s my ma, fifty-odd years old, hightailing around town with some guy while I sit here, in the prime of my youth, completely and utterly alone.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
