light out
light out
To flee hastily; to clear out or depart quickly. We lit out for the safe house as soon as we heard the police sirens in the distance. Everyone else started to light out of there when the manager announced he would be taking volunteers for weekend work.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
light out (of some place) (for some place)
Fig. to leave a place in a great hurry for some place. I lit out of there for home as fast as I could. I lit out of there as fast as I could go.
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light out
(for some place) Go to cut out (for some place).
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
light out
Leave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher-let's light out. This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [Slang; mid-1800s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
light out
v.
To leave someplace hastily: With only 30 minutes to get to the airport, we grabbed our bags and lit out. The robbers lit out of the bank once the alarm went off.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
lights out
1. n. bedtime. It’s lights out, kids. Radios off, too!
2. n. death; time to die. (Underworld.) It’s lights out for you, chum.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- lights out
- light out for (some place)
- cut and run
- cut and run, to
- take flight
- charge out
- hit out for (some place)
- make for
- make for (somewhere or something)
- make for somewhere