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Make a run for it

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away. idiomatic

    "An explosion! All’s over—I have nothing to do but to make a run for it."

  2. 2
    To run so as to avoid being late. idiomatic

    "[...] he began to go over in his mind the many occasions on which he had heard that toll coming faintly down the breeze, and had to pack his rod in a hurry and make a run for it, to get in before the gates were shut."

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