make a run for
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If only she might climb that moonlight like a ladder and make a run for it!
From Literature
He’d make a run for it if he had to.
From Literature
It has been a wide-open secret for years that Wiener wanted to make a run for federal office when or if Pelosi retired, but he’s also been deferential to the elder stateswoman of California politics and has made it equally clear that he would wait his turn in the brutal and parochial machine of San Francisco politics.
From Los Angeles Times
When hearing his voice, some attempt to reach through the shrubbery while others make a run for the back stairs in hopes of seeing him.
From Los Angeles Times
“Impossible. We should restrain her with a binding juju and make a run for it.”
From Literature
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