beat+a+retreat

  • 81beat a hasty retreat — v. leave rapidly, withdraw quickly …

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  • 82beatable — beat ► VERB (past beat; past part. beaten) 1) strike (someone) repeatedly and violently. 2) strike repeatedly to flatten or make a noise. 3) defeat, surpass, or overcome. 4) informal baffle. 5) (of the heart) pulsate. 6) …

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  • 83beater — beat ► VERB (past beat; past part. beaten) 1) strike (someone) repeatedly and violently. 2) strike repeatedly to flatten or make a noise. 3) defeat, surpass, or overcome. 4) informal baffle. 5) (of the heart) pulsate. 6) …

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  • 84escape — v 1. get awry, get free, get out, get clear of, break away, make or effect one s escape, make good one s escape, get away safely, Archaic. scape or scape, Inf. jump, Inf. skip, Inf. make a getaway or clean getaway, Inf. fly the coop; All Sl.… …

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  • 85run — v 1. dash, dart, bolt, tear, tear along, bowl along, make time, cover ground, make strides or rapid strides; sprint, fly, flit, whiz, whisk; zoom, zip, career, rip, scour, scud, scorch, burn up the road, outstrip the wind, race like the wind, go… …

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  • 86fly — I v 1. take wing, wing one s way, take off, take to the air, become airborne; soar, sail, zoom, cruise, coast, sweep, skim, Inf. kite; glide, plane, volplane, sailplane; dart, flit, flirt, hop, volitate. 2. float, hover, drift, hang, poise, float …

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  • 87departure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Moving away from Nouns 1. departure, leaving, parting, decampment; disappearance; retreat, embarkation; outset, start; removal, exit, egress, exodus, hejira, evacuation; flight (see escape); recession. 2 …

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  • 88Pour Down Like Silver — Infobox Album | Name = Pour Down Like Silver Type = Album Artist = Richard and Linda Thompson Released = November 1975 Recorded = 1975 at Sound Techniques, London Genre = Rock Length = 40:40 Label = Island in the UK Warner Bros. Records in the… …

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  • 89abscond — v 1. flee, bolt, elope, escape, fly, take flight, take to flight, take wing, Sl. wing it, Inf. beat it, Inf. skip out, Inf. skip town, Inf. skedaddle, Sl. skidoodle, Sl. skidoo or skiddoo, Sl. vamoose or vamose, Sl. light out; run, run away, run… …

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  • 90flee — v 1. run, run away or off, take to one s heels, make a quick exit, Rare. fugitate, Inf. take off, Inf. clear out, Inf. make tracks, Inf. cut out, Inf. cut and run, Inf. fly the coop, Sl. split, Sl. scram, Sl. blow, Sl. hightail it, Sl. lam or… …

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