cut and run

Meaning

1. to make a quick or sudden escape

In the movies · 4

• If something happens, anything at all, you cut and run.The Mist2007
• Look, you wanna cut and run, you better do it now.Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• A throat cut while you run me over the coals.Death on the Nile2022
• - Or would you cut and run? - Oh, God.Love Actually2003

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real

From the same entry

• cut it
• cut across
• cut away
• cut back
• cut down
• cut down
• cut down
• cut in
• cut in
• cut in
• cut off
• cut off