take it on the lam en · VERB
Etymology
From on the lam.
Meanings
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(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: