beat a hasty retreat
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The bandits beat a hasty retreat when the policemen attacked them.
Другие идиомы:
- beat the tar out of (someone)
- beat the gun
- beat a path to (someone's) door
- beat the rap
- beat one's brains out
- beat up (someone)
- beat one's head against the wall
- beat around the bush
- beat the clock
- beat the living daylights out of (someone)
- beat (something) into (someone's) head
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men