make tracks
make tracks
slang To quickly leave some place or move toward a place. "Tracks" refers to footprints. Come on, everybody, let's make tracks for the show before it gets too late. I've got to make tracks right now, but I'll catch up with you tomorrow.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
make tracks (for something)
Fig. to move rapidly toward something or some place. The cowboys all made tracks for the chuck wagon. Let's make tracks! Here comes the sheriff.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
make tracks
Move or leave in a hurry, as in If we're going to catch the first show, we'd better make tracks. This term alludes to the footprints left by running. [Slang; early 1800s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
make tracks
If you make tracks, you leave a place. Webb looked at the clock. `Ten past nine. We might as well be making tracks.' About 8pm, we decided it was time to start making tracks, but we all found it difficult to get going. Note: In this expression, `tracks' are footprints.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
make tracks (for)
leave (for a place). informal 1984 David Brin Practice Effect We have another big climb ahead of us and another pass to get through. Let's make tracks.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
make ˈtracks (for something)
(spoken) leave one place to go to another: It’s getting late; I think we’d better make tracks.See also: make, track
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
make tracks
tv. to move out of a place fast. Let’s make tracks. We gotta hit Adamsville before noon.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
make tracks
Slang To move or leave in a hurry.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
make tracks, to
To leave in a hurry. This nineteenth-century American colloquialism was recorded by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) in his “Sam Slick” papers, which originally appeared in a Nova Scotia weekly in 1836, as well as in several earlier journals. Presumably it alludes to running away with a heavy tread, thereby leaving tracks in the dirt.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- make tracks, to
- ditch (some place)
- defect to
- defect to (something)
- fly off
- Mecca for
- flock in
- flock in(to) (some place or thing)
- barrel in
- barrel in(to)