| 词汇 | take to the tall timber |
| 词源 | take to the tall timber. Meaning to depart suddenly and un- ceremoniously, to take to the tall timber is a variation on the early 19th-century to break for the high timber, which meant to escape into the high woods at the edge of civilization in order to make pursuit by the law difficult. |
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