run for it

Hours after Mr Smith and the FBI's surveillance specialists went off shift, he said Mr San Diego made a run for it with detectives in pursuit.

Over the years, pursuit suspects have tried to evade police by driving into parking garages or into Los Angeles International Airport, where there are flight restrictions for news choppers, or trying to run for it.

“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” the girl said in testimony related to conditions in immigrant detention.

It was an homage to Joe Manchin, a man who left the Democratic Party and did not win when his senate seat last came up reelection—so poor was his polling that he declined to even run for it.

In an interview with the BBC before the latest killings, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said the GHF plan showed "utter disregard for civilians. Can you imagine people who have been absolutely desperate for food, for medicine for almost three months, and then they have to basically run for it or try to get it in the most desperate circumstances?"