make a break for it
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
- 1915, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, ch. 3:
- "By Gar! it was as well that he made a break for it before the note reached us! I guess he won't show his face in this valley again."
- 2006, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1212936-2,00.html Behavior: The New Runaways: Old Folks]," Time, 12 July:
- To restrain runaways who are too fragile to survive on the outside, Administrator Edward Farmilant of Chicago's Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it.
- 1915, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, ch. 3:
- (to attempt to escape) make a run for it
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