Verb: take to the woods
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, take to the woods!";
- scat [informal], run, scarper [Brit, informal], turn tail [informal], lam [N. Amer, informal], run away, hightail it [N. Amer, informal], bunk [informal], head for the hills [informal], escape, fly the coop [informal], break away, leg it [Brit, informal]
Derived forms: took to the woods, takes to the woods, taken to the woods, taking to the woods