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A list of phrases related to the word "escape"...
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A clean getaway
Avoid
like the plague
Bail out
Beat the rap
Behind the eight ball
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Bigger in Texas, Better in a
Dodge
(
Dodge
Motors advertising slogan )
Born To
Run
( Bruce Springsteen song )
Bun
run
Business is like a car, it will not
run
by itself except downhill
Cut and
run
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Cut loose
Don't try to
run
before you can walk
Dry
run
Eat and
run
Escape your memory
Factory
outlet
( a shop where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Factory shop ( a retail
outlet
where goods are sold directly to the public by the manufacturer )
Fight or
flight
Flight
attendant
Flight
of fancy
Get off lightly
Get the hell out of
Dodge
Give someone the slip
Give the slip
Go over the wall
Going going gone ( A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home
run
that is heading over the fence )
Grab life by the horns (
Dodge
Motors advertising slogan )
Had a good
run
Hit and
run
Hold with the hare and
run
with the hounds
Home
run
In the clear
In the long
run
In the short
run
Jump bail
Leak
like a sieve
Let the genie out of the bottle
Let your imagination
run
riot
Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape
Make a bolt for the door
Make a break for it
Make good your escape
Narrow escape
Off the hook
On the lam
On the
run
Play hookey
Put to
flight
Run
For Your Life ( The Beatles song )
Run
Forrest, Run! ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Run
a fever
Run
a tight ship
Run
along
Run
amuck
Run
for cover
Run
for the border ( Taco advertising slogan )
Run
for the hills
Run
for your life
Run
for your money
Run
it up the flagpole and see who salutes
Run
its course
Run
like the wind
Run
of the Millsap ( Nickname of Paul Millsap )
Run
of the mill
Run
off at the mouth
Run
off your feet
Run
out of gas
Run
out of steam
Run
out of town on a rail
Run
rabbit,
run
rabbit,
run
run
run
Run
rings around
Run
the gauntlet
Run
the plates
Run
the risk
Run
to fat
Run
to ground
Run
to seed
Run
toward the sound of gunfire
Run
with the ball
Run
with the hare and hunt with the hounds
Run
yourself ragged
Scot free
See how they
run
like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song lyric )
Shoot the moon ( remove household goods by night to
avoid
paying rent )
Shot while trying to escape
Slip the collar
Still waters
run
deep
Sue grabbit and
run
Take
flight
Take the money and
run
Take to the hills
The
Flight
of the Bumble Bee
The Great Escape ( Steve McQueen movie )
The course of true love never did
run
smooth
The perfect crime
This one will
run
and
run
Three blind mice, see how they
run
( line from nursery rhyme )
Top
flight
Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to ( ABBA lyric )
White
flight
Women and children first
Wriggle out of
You can
run
but you can't hide