Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

take it on the lam en · VERB

Etymology

From on the lam.

Meanings

  1. (US, idiomatic, informal) To escape.
    • They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done. 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168: