Folk phrases for *escape*

Posted by R. Berg on August 28, 2002

In Reply to: Folk phrases for *escape* posted by ESC on August 28, 2002

: : : I wonder if anyone here knows some good folk phrases for escape from authority (be it a boy from his parents, a kid from the techers, a youth from the cops..... whatever). Eluding suppression and repression.

: : : The act of escaping.

: : : And, too, the condition of having escaped.

: : : Thanks t'ya. Parnell

: : I have several country phrase books. But none have indexes so I have to page through.

: : hell and gone (n. phr. the remotest distance) ".and lit out for hell an' gone.' 'It's me for the high hills of hell an' gone)." "Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart," edited by Harold J. Farwell Jr., and J. Karl Nicholas (University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1993).

: : A hard dog to keep under the porch.

: : Running fast: He was splittin' the mud. He took off like a scalded dog.

: To run: Buck it. High-tail it. Run like wild turkeys. To outwit: outsharp. From Southern Mountain Speech by Cratis D. Williams (Berea College Press, 1992)

: You can't keep a squirrel on the ground - It's futile to force someone to do something he's not naturally suited to do. From the Mountain Range section of the Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms: Local Expressions from Coast to Coast by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 2000).

People who have advanced degrees in the social sciences and live in cities would simply say he has issues with authority.

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