Idioms

beat a hasty retreat
to retreat or withdraw very quickly
The soldiers beat a hasty retreat when the guerrillas attacked them.

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  • beat a path to (someone's) door
  • beat around the bush
  • beat one's brains out
  • beat one's head against the wall
  • beat the clock
  • beat the living daylights out of (someone)
  • beat the rap
  • beat the tar out of (someone)
  • beat up (someone) or beat (someone) up
  • Beat's me.
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  • give ground
  • take ill
  • at once
  • short for (something)
  • get the blues
  • able to take a joke
  • dumb bunny
  • dance with death
  • cash in (something) or cash (something) in
  • fill the bill


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