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Cut and run

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it.
  2. 2
    To hurry away; to escape. broadly

    "“I just say it’s curious, that’s all. Here’s a young man who ought to cut and run, but he doesn’t cut and run. He stays here, and gives us every facility for comparing footmarks.”"

  3. 3
    To abandon a position as quickly as possible.

    "They held on as long as they could, but when the heavy artillery fire started, they had to cut and run."

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