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flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
If you see this man, run!
The burglars escaped before the police showed up
How To Use take to the woods In A Sentence
- Brave man, never take to the woods, always confront difficulty and conquer it.
- On account of some trivial misunderstanding with the authorities, this man was compelled in the early eighties to take to the woods, where he lived a wild life _ (alla campagna; alla macchia) _ for some three years. Old Calabria
- But even then it was only to take to the woods on foot, groping through the night with your hand at one man's belt while another held you behind, trying for dear life not to thrash about like a mad bear in a cane-break, gripping your rifle and gritting your teeth against the pain of saddle-sore buttocks. Isabelle
- Brave man, never take to the woods, always confront difficulty and conquer it.