run for it
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Verb edit
run for it (third-person singular simple present runs for it, present participle running for it, simple past ran for it, past participle run for it)
- (informal) To escape from danger by running; to flee.
- Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- `Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.
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escape
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