make a break for it

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Verb

make a break for it (third-person singular simple present makes a break for it, present participle making a break for it, simple past and past participle made a break for it)

  1. (idiomatic) To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
    Synonym: make a run for it
    • 1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 February 1915, →OCLC:
      "By Gar! it was as well that he made a break for it before the note reached us! I guess he won't show his face in this valley again."
    • 2006 July 12, “Behavior: The New Runaways: Old Folks”, in Time‎[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:
      To restrain runaways who are too fragile to survive on the outside, Administrator Edward Farmilant of Chicago's Somerset nursing home gave the front door guard pictures of 36 patients who might make a break for it.
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