take to your heels

take to your heels
take to your heels mainly literary phrase
to run away from someone, especially because you have done something wrong
Thesaurus: to escape from a place or situationsynonym to runsynonym
Main entry: heel

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take to your heels
: to begin to run away

They took to their heels when they saw the policeman approaching.

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Main Entry:heel

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ˌtake to your ˈheels idiom
to run away from sb/sth
Main entry:heelidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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