"take it on the lam" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: takes it on the lam [present, singular, third-person], taking it on the lam [participle, present], took it on the lam [past], taken it on the lam [participle, past]
Etymology: From on the lam. Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> it on the lam}} take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)
  1. (US, informal, idiomatic) To escape. Tags: US, idiomatic, informal

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From on the lam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> it on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:",
          "text": "They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_it_on_the_lam-en-verb-DQ2CuYsE",
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, informal, idiomatic) To escape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take it on the lam"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From on the lam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> it on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:",
          "text": "They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, informal, idiomatic) To escape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take it on the lam"
}

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