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get away

• escape.
• "Stevie was caught, but the rest of us got away"
Similar: escape, run away, run off, get out, break out, break/get free, break loose, make a break for it, bolt, flee, fly, take flight, make off, take off, decamp, abscond, take to one's heels, make a/one's escape, make good one's escape, make a/one's getaway, beat a hasty retreat, show a clean pair of heels, run for it, make a run for it, disappear, vanish, slip away, steal away, sneak away, get out of someone's clutches, do a bunk, do a moonlight flit, cut and run, skedaddle, skip, head for the hills, fly the coop, take French leave, vamoose, hightail it, do a runner, hook it, scarper, leg it, take a powder, go on the lam,
• used to express disbelief or scepticism.
• "‘I am Spanish.’ ‘Get away.’ ‘I am. I can prove it.’"

getaway noun

• an escape or quick departure, especially after committing a crime.
• "the thieves made their getaway"
Similar: escape, breakout, break, bolt for freedom, running away, flight, bolting, absconding, decamping, fleeing, flit, disappearance, vanishing act, abscondment, decampment,
• a short holiday.
• "a weekend getaway"


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