beat a hasty retreat
Example Sentences
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The world's top energy companies beat a hasty retreat from Russia and wrote off tens of billions of dollars in assets.
From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2022
After a few halfhearted protests, he read the room and beat a hasty retreat up the stairs.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2022
And it’s only a few months since the Academy announced they would be adding a category for “Popular Film” to next year’s Oscars, only to beat a hasty retreat in the face of near-universal criticism.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
Appalled at what he had done, young Arthur beat a hasty retreat, according to John Houseman, Welles’s collaborator, in his 1972 memoir, “Run-Through.”
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2016
The woman’s eyes went wide, and she beat a hasty retreat.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
