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run for it
verb as in fly
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If only she might climb that moonlight like a ladder and make a run for it!
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He’d make a run for it if he had to.
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Instead of making a run for it, he resolves to hunker down until the heat is off.
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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.
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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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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