run away

[run away] or [run off] {v.}

To leave and not plan to come back; go without permission; escape.

* /Many times Tommy said he would run away from home, but he never did./

* /The guards in jail make sure that none of the prisoners run away./

Compare: GET AWAY.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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