(simile, Australia, colloquial, informal) To leave in haste.
1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GpVkJRvmlqsC&pg…
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