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.’"
get away with
• escape blame, punishment, or undesirable consequences for an act that is wrong.
• "if he thinks he can get away with cheating me, he's very much mistaken"
Similar:
escape blame for,
escape punishment for,
