take to (your) heels

to run away quickly.

As soon as they saw the soldiers coming, they took to their heels.

• see someone in their true colours
• see someone in true colours
• see someone off
• see someone out
• see someone right
• see someone's true colours
• see someone through
• see someone through something
• see something for what are
• see something for what really are
• see something for what they are
• see something for what they really are
• see something through
• see stars
• see the back of
• see the back of someone
• see the back of something
• see the colour of money
• see the colour of someone's money
• see the error of its ways
• see the error of ways
• see the error of your ways
• see the glass as half empty
• see the glass as half full
• see the glass half empty