take it on the lam

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English

Etymology

From on the lam.

Verb

take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)

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

Further reading

“take it on the lam”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“take it on the lam”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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