run for it

verb

run for it

verb

1

Informal To escape from danger by running; to flee.

Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.
`Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

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