make a break

Tired of waiting, and of wondering where all that water came from, they decided to make a break for it.

If she tried to make a break for it, he’d chase her instead of Chicken.

“Former President Trump is set on Thursday to visit the U.S.-Mexico border. I’m guessing to make a break for it?”

And then there is the petty humiliation embodied by the uniformed market guard hawkishly watching Ansa, as if she is a prisoner who, at any second, is about to make a break from it.

What better time to make a break from that — and what better place to find a clean slate for it — than California, the new, the last horizon of that vanishing frontier?