make a run for it

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make a run for it (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 makes a run for it,現在分詞 making a run for it,一般過去時及過去分詞 made a run for it)

  1. (俗語) 逃跑
    • 1824, George Soane, Pride Shall Have a Fall: A Comedy, London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., Act 4, Scene 2, p. 79,[1]
      An explosion! All’s over—I have nothing to do but to make a run for it.
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    • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “Prunesquallor’s Knee-Cap,”
      Nannie Slagg, terrified at this suggestion, raised her little bony hands to her mouth and raised her shoulders to her ears. Then she gave one frightened look down the passage and was about to make a run for it [...]
  2. (俗語) 奔跑赶上
    • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days, Part 2, Chapter 6,[2]
      [...] he began to go over in his mind the many occasions on which he had heard that toll coming faintly down the breeze, and had to pack his rod in a hurry and make a run for it, to get in before the gates were shut.
    • 1964, John Nathan (translator), A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe, New York: Grove Press, 1969, Chapter 5, p. 83,
      In the depths of his body, Bird felt the beginning of an irrepressible and certain crisis. [...] Could he make it in time if he charged in that direction? But how much better to ride the crisis out without having to make a run for it.

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