run for it

Meaning

1. Oxford90% of films

   to run in order to escape from sb / sth

   and the rest of us made a run for it.

In the movies · 21

• Yeah, well, l was. . . Why don't we just make a run for it?Tremors1990
• and the rest of us made a run for it.Bird Box2018
• So if we want to leave, we better make a run for it.Barbie2023
• Run for it!Star Wars: The Clone Wars2008
• You run for it.Widows2018
• Do not run for itThe Interview2014
• Quick, let's make a run for it.The Grinch2018
• Go ahead, run for it.Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Barbie2023
  • Barbie Rewrites the Doll Story
  • Barbie's Perfect Day in Barbie Land
  • Ken Beaches Off and Gets Hurt
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
  • Puss Crashes His Own Fiesta
  • Puss Learns He Has Died
  • The Doctor Gives Puss His Last Life

From the same entry

• come running
• up and running
• a close - run thing
• hit the ground running
• run across
• run after
• run after
• run along
• run around with
• run at
• run away
• run away from

More idioms

• make sick
• what has got into
• straight up
• in secret
• from the heart
• nice one
• go far
• first and foremost
• together with
• make a move
• make way
• up and running