beat a hasty retreat

The perpetrators, a group of Irish Republican Army foot soldiers, beat a hasty retreat for a small village, Glencolmcille in County Donegal.

One recent morning, the Buhay’s crew was sent on a mission to bust Russian fortifications in the countryside areas near the only highway the Ukrainians can use to enter Bakhmut — or beat a hasty retreat.

When the 586th arrived in their Yaks, the enemy planes dropped their bombs in a snow-covered field instead of on their populated industrial target, and beat a hasty retreat.

The world's top energy companies beat a hasty retreat from Russia and wrote off tens of billions of dollars in assets.

After a few halfhearted protests, he read the room and beat a hasty retreat up the stairs.