hightail
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In most cases, drivers might hightail it out of there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Read on, study up, then hightail it to your nearest butcher.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2022
So, over the next 10 days, let’s dig deeper into each specific position — who’s expected to start, who’s pushing for playing time, and who may be tempted to hightail it to the transfer portal.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 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
“When I say go, you hightail it outta here and don’t look back, got it?”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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 turned down the film, broke up with John and hightailed it out of town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
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
When the bell finally rang, I hightailed it out of there and headed for the bus.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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 ● Apr. 4, 2025
The brief video ends with the deer hightailing it away from the school.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
I think about hightailing it into the woods, but I’m frozen.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
