take it on the lam
Example Sentences
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Panicked, the newly established outlaw couple take it on the lam, holing up in a ratty motel until their money runs out and they are reduced to sleeping in their car.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2016
Chuck and George decide to take it on the lam from lamaland.
From Time Magazine Archive
When their turn comes to climb aboard the carrousel, the skeptics take it on the lam, running through the innards of the domed city, scrambling madly for the "outside."
From Time Magazine Archive
They didn’t take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Diaz, the dead pigeon, and this guy McSweeney take it on the lam from the big house.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
