hightail
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Unmentioned in his column is the fact that Rose Bowl’s primary tenant, UCLA, is currently trying to hightail it for the sleek confines of SoFi Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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
“He licks that pan clean and then hightails it outta there so fast I hardly get so much as a glimpse of him.”
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
Eventually, Berkoff couldn’t stand it any longer and, in a fury hightailed it to LAX in a rental car that bore the dents of his anger, leaving the production without a Goldberg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
I hightailed it back here, to the north shore of Hawaii, and I thought that was it.
From Fox News ● Sep. 14, 2021
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
“He hightailed it out of there, but didn’t manage to exit unseen. There was a man there, a minor-league ballplayer named Jacob Carlyle. He was the one who came forward as the witness.”
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
The brief video ends with the deer hightailing it away from the school.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 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
She’d even considered cashing out and hightailing it to a wine cave in the Loire Valley.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2014
“Luke’s gonna get it now,” Mitchell said before hightailing it to the boys’ yard.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
