hightail it

Example Sentences

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Grandpa looked at his watch and said, “I think you and Rowdy had better hightail it for home. I’m going to lock up the store and make a trip up the road.”

From Literature

As Sal and I hightailed it out of there, my heart was leaping around in my chest.

From Literature

Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.

From Los Angeles Times

She reached the 14,500-foot summit at 7:45 a.m. and, after snapping a few photos, hightailed it down.

From Los Angeles Times

McCartney happened to be visiting Lennon in New York at the time and they briefly considered shocking the world by hightailing it down to Rockefeller Center, but the idea was abandoned.

From Los Angeles Times