hightail
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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 ● Sep. 30, 2025
Read on, study up, then hightail it to your nearest butcher.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2022
“But if not, we’ll hightail it out. We’ll get out.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 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
“I think you better hightail it on down to Mr. Van Dyke’s office, Sonny,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
So Flippo hightailed it north to run in the far more hospitable 2nd District.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
I hightailed it back here, to the north shore of Hawaii, and I thought that was it.
From Fox News ● Sep. 14, 2021
On Friday, Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri hightailed his way to Harlem to meet with Dan and a group Dan described as “90% people of color” about the blackface controversy.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 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
The man from the butcher shop had tricked the cap’n outta fifty dollars, quit his job, and hightailed it to who-know-where.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
“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
