"run for it" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs for it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running for it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran for it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run for it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "run<,,ran,run> for it"
      },
      "expansion": "run for it (third-person singular simple present runs for it, present participle running for it, simple past ran for it, past participle run for it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "`Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape from danger by running; to flee."
      ],
      "id": "en-run_for_it-en-verb-sd5vhbFe",
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "flee",
          "flee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To escape from danger by running; to flee."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "rvatʹ kógti",
          "sense": "escape",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "рвать ко́гти"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "dratʹ",
          "sense": "escape",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "драть"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "escape",
          "word": "lägga benen på ryggen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "run for it"
}

{
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    {
      "form": "runs for it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running for it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran for it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run for it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> for it"
      },
      "expansion": "run for it (third-person singular simple present runs for it, present participle running for it, simple past ran for it, past participle run for it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "`Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape from danger by running; to flee."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "flee",
          "flee"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To escape from danger by running; to flee."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rvatʹ kógti",
      "sense": "escape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "рвать ко́гти"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dratʹ",
      "sense": "escape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "драть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "escape",
      "word": "lägga benen på ryggen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run for it"
}