hotfoot it
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Howard is only one of the many characters woven into “Mary Toft,” and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2019
I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
Carr got up to talk to more voters, to pay for everything they’d ordered, and then to hotfoot it to a plane that would take him around the state.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2014
Charlie Adam may be about to say his goodbyes to Blackpool and hotfoot it to Blackburn or Birmingham but the Tangerines will get over him by asking Plymouth's Bradley Wright-Phillips for a hot date.
From The Guardian • Jan. 7, 2011
They still can't see that it’s time to cut bait and hotfoot it out of town.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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