take it on the lam
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From on the lam.
Verb[edit]
take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)
- (US) To escape.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
- They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.
Further reading[edit]
- “take it on the lam”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “take it on the lam”, in Collins English Dictionary.