hotfoot it
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They don’t all hotfoot it straight to the police station.
From Slate • May 20, 2023
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
Pulis is also hunting for a right-sided midfielder as Liam Lawrence is about to hotfoot it to Celtic.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2010
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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