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Related to hightailed: shaken up, in view of, called off, brought out
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leave as fast as possible

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The pirates then decided to abandon the Iranian ship and hightailed it back to port in skiffs.
Recently, my partner and I pulled the article from June 2006 on the lake country of northern Idaho and hightailed it out of town for a quick four-day gateway.
After being edged out in three close sets by Andy Roddick at Queen's Mahut hightailed it to Roehampton, where he has since won three matches to qualify for the Wimbledon main draw.
Did the entrepreneur poacher turned gamekeeper do it for the good of competition or us consumers or because he is still peeved with Michael O'Leary for including him in his tax free ad for flights to Malta, after O'Brien hightailed it to Portugal to avoid paying capital gains tax?
Since he's been gone, Metropolis has learned to cope without him, and, what's worse, his love Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) is engaged and, has a five-year old son called Jason (who was conceived around the time Superman hightailed it out of there).
(And you thought its collective libido shriveled like lederhosen in the dryer when California's future Gropenator hightailed it outta Graz with nothing but a Speedo, a bottle of horse pills, and a dream.) Evidently there's something liberating about Kaffe mit Schlagobers and lilting Lipizzaners that loosens those baroque bustiers.
(And you thought its collective libido shriveled like lederhosen in the dryer when Ah-nold hightailed it outta Graz with nothing but a Speedo, a bottle of horse pills, and a dream.) Evidently there's something liberating about Kaffe mit Schlagobers and equine choreography that loosens those baroque bustiers.
The two men saw Thomas coming and hightailed it out of there.
Before any four-year-old could ask, 'Mummy, why's that man shouting 'pimp, sex and fear' at that baby,' we'd hightailed it out of there for the relative safety of home.
For instance, he points out that "the most dramatic story about the NFB was the communist scare in the late 1940s" when founder John Grierson hightailed it out of the country under suspicion of ringleading a nest of wild-eyed pinko spies.
The former Mrs Ian Beale hightailed it out of London to have a hit in 2000 Acres of Sky and the crime drama Daylight Robbery.
He hightailed it to Las Vegas to party with a bunch of pals while she headed for Miami alone.
Armed with a burgeoning avocation for stand-up comedy--which she first took up to vent the frustrations of her life as an out lesbian attorney in Connecticut--Cassella hightailed it to Toronto's more gay-friendly shores in 1995.
Cops in Lewiston, Maine, were just trying to make a routine traffic stop when the driver went buggy, bailed out and hightailed it into the woods.