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Escape quickly after seeing copper close to flat with ladder
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cut and run
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Cut and run is a phrase meaning to "hurry off" typically used pejoratively in politics in reference to withdrawing troops from a conflict. Cut and run may also refer to: Cut and Run (film) , a 1985 Italian film
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vb. 1 (context nautical English) To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled. 2 (context by extension English) To hurry away; to escape. 3 (context military English) To abandon a position as quickly as possible.
Usage examples of cut and run.
I thought, things go wrong, I can always just cut and run, no problem.
That can easily happen, you know, when you're an old man with a shaky wrist and a cloudy eye, too stiff in the joints even to cut and run.
I mean, even in disguise, you never know - I might have to cut and run, and I'd rather have two sound pins for that, what?
It was like walking with a badly wound up clockwork doll as we descended to the street, but once we were out in the sunshine and the chattering Broadway crowds she became easier, possibly because I showed no tendency to cut and run or bawl for a copper.
The leader who got 'em in this mess would never be able to show his face at a dance if he just cut and run.
When the numbers start moving into the neighborhood of five to one against you, it's time to cut and run, I always say.
And that's why I called ever'body together, now: We need to talk this whole thing out and figure what's going to be the best for us to do-cut and run up to that valley up or stand and fight the fuckers off here, then go up ttf the valley.