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Answer for the clue "Go away in a hurry ", 14 letters:
beat a retreat

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Word definitions for beat a retreat in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To leave hastily in the face of opposition.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. depart hastily

Usage examples of beat a retreat.

Hornblower beat a retreat, abandoning - forgetting, rather - the object of his visit of inspection below.

Hornblower beat a retreat, abandoning forgetting, rather the object of his visit of inspection below.

A couple of hours was usually enough, before they beat a retreat, back to where the closest they got to rough trade was the chauffeur.

He cleaved through the crowd so efficiently that, once she realized she was indeed his target, she didn't have time to beat a retreat.

Emerson are not at home,' even the most importunate Americans beat a retreat.

They were downwind of the raboons and so beat a retreat in silence.

Actually, I had been preparing to beat a retreat, but thisguy wasn't about to leave me that choice.

Bolfass stood on the Captain's Bridge of the Starship Titanic and could not believe his eyes, as he watched the Blerontinian mercenaries beat a retreat into their boarding craft.

Nor could Deringhouse, Nyssen and McClears see why it was so amusing to beat a retreat.

But here are the regulars, so the auxiliary forces may beat a retreat.

He beat a retreat before she could insist, and almost ran to his apartments.