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oculos deicere, removere ab aliqua re	to turn one's gaze away from an object.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the lam	Running away, usually from the police; on the run.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the spot	At that very moment; right away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on yer bike	go away! scram!	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
os brancos que se entendam	Said by someone who wishes to stay away from a fight or discussion between other people.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Out in the Boondocks	Some place far away, in remote places	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ouvrage hâté, ouvrage gâté	Haste makes waste.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pack off	To send away, with belongings, for a long time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pack up	To clear away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
passer de vie à trépas	to pass away, to die	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
peg it	To run away; to leg it; to scarper.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
piss money up the wall	To waste money, normally through ineptness in business.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pour down the drain	to waste prior work by subsequent bad decisions	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
praecipitem ferri aliqua re (Verr. 5. 46. 121)	to be carried away by something.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prendre le large	To run for the offing (nav.); To run away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
prope (propius, proxime) abesse	to be not far away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
push off	To go away; to get lost.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put up	To store away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
quand le chat n'est pas là, les souris dansent	when the cat's away the mice will play	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run down the clock	To waste time at the end of a match such that it is terminated by running out of time, or during a match so a time penalty is made less severe.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run off	To chase someone away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run out the clock	To preserve a lead in a game by retaining possession, to waste time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
screw around	To waste time; to dawdle; to play or idle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
screw off	To go away at someone's urging; to bugger off.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
se casser	To get lost, go away, leave	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sécher sur pied	To pine away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
send for	To send away for, to request a delivery of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
send someone packing	To expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shoot the breeze	To chat idly or generally waste time talking.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
show a clean pair of heels	to run away quickly; to make an escape quickly; to outpace	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shrink back	To back away or retreat; to abandon an effort.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
skoffed	Do sartastically whistle air out of your mouth and look away	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sky is the Limit	No limits to achieve your goals, to go far away in reaching your destination	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slide off	To leave a place, a meeting, etc., without being noticed; to slip away, slip off.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slop out	To throw out the waste from the chamberpot in a prison cell.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
softly, softly, catchee monkey	Capture a target without startling it to run away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spend thrift	A person who spends money quickly, foolishly or indiscriminately; to waste money without regard of the consequences.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
spin one's wheels	Waste time, money and energy.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stalking horse	A candidate put forward to serve a hidden, ulterior purpose in a political campaign, such as testing the field for another potential candidate by gauging voter sentiment or covertly helping another candidate by attracting voters away from a third candidate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stay over	Stay overnight in a place away from one's home, sleep over.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
step over	To relocate oneself to a position of a few steps away; step aside	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
straight out the gate	Immediately, right from the start. Right away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sur ce il s'en alla	After that he went away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sur le champ	right away	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tail off	To gradually subside or diminish; to tail away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take a hike	To go away; to leave or depart.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take a long walk off a short pier	Used to tell someone to go away, or that their request will not be met.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take a powder	To leave in a hurry; run away; scram; depart without taking leave or notifying anyone, often with a connotation of avoiding something unpleasant or shirking responsibility.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take to one's heels	To leave; especially, to flee or run away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take to the hills	To flee or vanish; to run away.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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