Escape Phrases

Phrases

• A clean getaway
• Avoid like the plague
• Bail out
• Beat the rap
• Behind the eight ball
• Bigger in Texas, Better in a Dodge (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Cut and run
• Cut loose
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Dry run
• Eat and run
• Escape your memory
• Factory outlet (a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Factory shop (a retail outlet where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer)
• Fight or flight
• Flight attendant
• Flight of fancy
• Get off lightly
• Get the hell out of Dodge
• Give someone the slip
• Give the slip
• Go over the wall
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Grab life by the horns (Dodge Motors advertising slogan)
• Had a good run
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• In the clear
• In the long run
• In the short run
• Jump bail
• Leak like a sieve
• Let the genie out of the bottle
• Let your imagination run riot
• Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
• Make a bolt for the door
• Make a break for it
• Make good your escape
• Narrow escape
• Off the hook
• On the lam
• On the run
• Play hookey
• Put to flight
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life
• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Scot free
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Shoot the moon (remove household goods by night to avoid paying rent)
• Shot while trying to escape
• Slip the collar
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• Take flight
• Take the money and run
• Take to the hills
• The Flight of the Bumble Bee
• The Great Escape (Steve McQueen movie)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The perfect crime
• This one will run and run
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Top flight
• Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to (ABBA lyric)
• White flight
• Women and children first
• Wriggle out of
• You can run but you can't hide