depart+quickly

  • 21take a powder — verb disappear without notifying anyone (idiom) • Syn: ↑skip town • Hypernyms: ↑disappear, ↑vanish, ↑go away • Verb Frames: Somebody s * …

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  • 22head for the hills — {v. phr.}, {informal} To get far away in a hurry; run away and hide. Often used imperatively. * /Head for the hills. The bandits are coming./ * /He saw the crowd chasing him, so he headed for the hills./ * /When they saw the mean boy coming, they …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 23head for the hills — {v. phr.}, {informal} To get far away in a hurry; run away and hide. Often used imperatively. * /Head for the hills. The bandits are coming./ * /He saw the crowd chasing him, so he headed for the hills./ * /When they saw the mean boy coming, they …

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  • 24vamoose — intransitive verb (vamoosed; vamoosing) Etymology: Spanish vamos let us go, suppletive 1st plural imperative (from Latin vadere to go) of ir to go, from Latin ire more at wade, issue Date: 1859 to depart quickly …

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  • 25book — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bōc; akin to Old High German buoh book, Gothic boka letter Date: before 12th century 1. a. a set of written sheets of skin or paper or tablets of wood or ivory b. a set of written, printed, or… …

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  • 26Kléber (Paris Métro) — Infobox Paris metro Name=Kléber Day=October 2nd Year=1900 Access= Municipality=the 16th arrondissement of Paris Zone=1 Next= X=81 Y=55Kléber is a station of the Paris Métro named after Avenue Kléber, which commemorates Jean Baptiste Kléber… …

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  • 27Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis — French film poster Directed by Dany Boon Produced by …

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  • 28check — check1 checkless, adj. /chek/, v., n., pl. checks or, for 45, chex, adj., interj. v.t. 1. to stop or arrest the motion of suddenly or forcibly: He checked the horse at the edge of the cliff. 2. to restrain; hold in restraint or control: They… …

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  • 29run off — verb a) To flee or depart quickly. Dont run off before the end of the event. b) To make photocopies, or print. Please run off a couple dozen more flyers to pass out …

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  • 30Douglas A. Lawson — (born 1947) is a geologist, paleontologist, and computer scientist. In 1971, Lawson discovered a partial wing (fragments of huge wing bones imbedded in a sandstone outcropping) of what he later named Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur, in Texas Big Bend …

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