hightail
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Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Read on, study up, then hightail it to your nearest butcher.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2022
“But if not, we’ll hightail it out. We’ll get out.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 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
“I think you better hightail it on down to Mr. Van Dyke’s office, Sonny,” he said.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
They sold the house two weeks later and hightailed it back to Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 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
I hightailed it back to the den, but not before I heard the beginnings of a sob in June’s throat.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
The brief video ends with the deer hightailing it away from the school.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
The call was always in the back of Darrin Phillips’ mind, threatening to send him hightailing out of the gym to catch the next flight home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
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
“At first I thought it was you, hightailing it for Mexico. But now I see it wasn’t you. He didn’t say anything about Washington Irving, did he?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
