hightail it
Example Sentences
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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
“You two should’ve been in the underground auditorium five minutes ago. I suggest you change into your uniforms, make those beds, and hightail it down there.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
