RUN FOR IT Definition & Meaning

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Also, run for one's life . Depart as fast as possible, either to escape danger or to reach something quickly. For example, You'd better run for it before the teacher catches you , or The bully is coming after you—run for your life! The for it in the first term almost certainly means “for one's life”—that is, to save one's life, a usage that can be literal or hyperbolic. Also see for dear life ; make a break for it .

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After biting and kicking Whitfield, she was able to get free, grab her son and make a run for it.

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He told the news service that his friend was driving when they saw the “red and blue lights” of the CHP squad car and the driver “decided just to run for it.”

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But it’s as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can’t convince her to make a run for it.

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The party was set to nominate the first Black candidate for president and his very close primary competitor, Hillary Clinton, was the first woman to make a serious run for it.

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"When you see that space you’ve got to run for it," he added.

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