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escape hatch
noun
- a hatch used for emergency escape, as from a submarine or aircraft.
- a means of avoiding a troublesome situation; a ready or handy way out.
escape hatch
noun
- a means of escape in an emergency, esp from a submarine
Word History and Origins
Origin of escape hatch1
Example Sentences
But it instead feels like an easy escape hatch when what “On Swift Horses” promised was a richer psychological landscape about what roils inside hearts accustomed to hiding.
“Music for us was like an escape hatch,” said Montenegro.
But at each dark turn our drooling, drunk genius finds an escape hatch, for better or worse, and something is soothing about that mercenary outlook.
In these circumstances, with the credible threat of a global trade war, for example, it should be noted that Rachel Reeves' new fiscal rules do have an escape hatch.
The small catamaran, called the Serenity, began to fill with water after suffering a failure on the seal around its escape hatch, ABC News reported.
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