take to the hills

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take to the hills (third-person singular simple present takes to the hills, present participle taking to the hills, simple past took to the hills, past participle taken to the hills)

  1. (idiomatic) To flee or vanish; to run away.
    He often took to the hills when his mother-in-law was in town.

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