on the run

Hurrying from place to place, as in The company officers were always on the run from New York to Los Angeles and back . [Late 1800s]
In rapid retreat; also, attempting to escape from pursuers. For example, The guerrillas were on the run after the ambush , or The burglars were on the run from the police . [Early 1800s]

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A convicted murderer who went on the run from an open prison in Dundee has been found in Edinburgh.

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"He is effectively on the run, and the theory is he's lonely, and puts an advert in the newspaper asking for a new wife," says Dan Clarke, a heritage officer at Moyse's Hall Museum.

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Hernandez “had been on the run from justice in both Mexico and the U.S., making him a top priority for law enforcement” the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said in a statement in Spanish.

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The BBC understands from sources in Haiti that he is a customs broker, is on the run and is suspected of being connected with gang activity in the north of the country.

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The court has heard that they went on the run after police found a placenta on the back seat of their car, which had caught fire on the M62.

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on the ropes on the safe side

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