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escape hatch

noun

  1. a hatch used for emergency escape, as from a submarine or aircraft.
  2. a means of avoiding a troublesome situation; a ready or handy way out.


escape hatch

noun

  1. a means of escape in an emergency, esp from a submarine
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Origin of escape hatch1

First recorded in 1920–25
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But at each dark turn our drooling, drunk genius finds an escape hatch, for better or worse, and something is soothing about that mercenary outlook.

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In these circumstances, with the credible threat of a global trade war, for example, it should be noted that Rachel Reeves' new fiscal rules do have an escape hatch.

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The small catamaran, called the Serenity, began to fill with water after suffering a failure on the seal around its escape hatch, ABC News reported.

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I think the defense still has one largely overlooked escape hatch: the arcane legal instructions for deciding the felony charges.

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That's not the escape hatch they are hoping it will be, however.

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