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run for it
Idioms and Phrases
Also, run for one's life . Depart as fast as possible, either to escape danger or to reach something quickly. For example, You'd better run for it before the teacher catches you , or The bully is coming after you鈥攔un for your life! The for it in the first term almost certainly means 鈥渇or one's life鈥濃攖hat is, to save one's life, a usage that can be literal or hyperbolic. Also see for dear life ; make a break for it .Example Sentences
After biting and kicking Whitfield, she was able to get free, grab her son and make a run for it.
He told the news service that his friend was driving when they saw the 鈥渞ed and blue lights鈥 of the CHP squad car and the driver 鈥渄ecided just to run for it.鈥
But it鈥檚 as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can鈥檛 convince her to make a run for it.
The party was set to nominate the first Black candidate for president and his very close primary competitor, Hillary Clinton, was the first woman to make a serious run for it.
"When you see that space you鈥檝e got to run for it," he added.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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