hightail in the PONS Dictionary

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I grabbed my wine and hightailed it to the cash register.
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Finances aside, not everyone wants to hightail it and run for the hills regardless.
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In her more athletic days, she could have hightailed it from her office to where we'd been chatting in no time.
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Every time his leg moved, we were ready to jump up and just hightail it out of there.
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If he felt the call of nature he knew enough to hightail it outside or suffer the consequences.
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We film enough to illustrate a point and hightail it back into the van and head off.
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Do they really believe the owner will hang on to their antique instead of hightailing it to the nearest auction house?
www.canberratimes.com.au
Leo hightails it outta there, back to his sister's place.
www.delta-optimist.com
Yan is promised a handsome reward if he can drag her son back in time for the wedding and hightails it after his friend.
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Most hikers would hightail it upon spotting two snakes fighting on a path.
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