List of synonyms from "sitting duck" to synonyms from "skeletal"
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Definition of the day : « skedaddle »
- verb flee
- They skedaddle like lightning if they see so much as Rachel's shadow.
- Extract from : « The Jolliest School of All » by Angela Brazil
- For the formation we may compare American vamose, to skedaddle, from Span.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
- Everything was in confusion, and all was helter-skelter, skurry, and skedaddle.
- Extract from : « The Recollections of A Drummer-Boy » by Harry M. Kieffer
- The fight lasted about three hours, when the rebs were obliged to skedaddle.
- Extract from : « An Artilleryman's Diary » by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
- Now skedaddle into your own rooms, but don't you dare to sit down for a moment.
- Extract from : « Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed » by Edna Ferber
- Grandpa had flapped his hands at the children and said, "Skedaddle, young-ones!"
- Extract from : « Across the Fruited Plain » by Florence Crannell Means
- But I would; I'd like no better fun than to rush right in and skedaddle the rebels with the bayonet; that's the way to do it!
- Extract from : « The Drummer Boy » by John Trowbridge
- In the skedaddle and panic that occurred later in the day, Joe, with many others, was taken prisoner by the Johnnies.
- Extract from : « Drum Taps in Dixie » by Delavan S. Miller
- Skedaddle, to; to run away; a word introduced during the civil war.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 » by Various
- During the night the enemy made their appearance, the bell was rung and the skedaddle enacted!
- Extract from : « Our campaign around Gettysburg » by John Lockwood