"show a clean pair of heels" meaning in English

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      "form": "shows a clean pair of heels",
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      "form": "showing a clean pair of heels",
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      "form": "shown a clean pair of heels",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, edited by Richard Maxwell, A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second, Penguin Classics, published 2003, Chapter XXIV, page 249",
          "text": "‘[...]No, gentlemen; he'll always show ’em a clean pair of heels very early in the scuffle, and sneak away.’",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133",
          "text": "But in the second column the \"Britannia\" Pacific , though with one coach less, showed a cleaner pair of heels, [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Brian Schofield, edited by Gerald Jordan, Naval Warfare In The Twentieth Century 1900—1945, Taylor & Francis, ‘Jacky’ Fisher, HMS Indomitable and the Dogger Bank Action: A Personal Memoir, page 66",
          "text": "The two German ships soon showed us and the battle-cruiser Indefatigable in company, a clean pair of heels, though the cruiser HMS Dublin managed to keep them in sight until they disappeared into the Straits of Messina to coal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 April, Bernard Brown, “The Sherlock Holmes of ‘G’ Division”, in Dan Norder, editor, Ripper Notes, number 22, Inklings Press, page 33",
          "text": "During the melee the suspect had run off, showing a clear pair of heels.",
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        "To run away; to make an escape quickly."
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        "(idiomatic) To run away; to make an escape quickly."
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    },
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          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, edited by Richard Maxwell, A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second, Penguin Classics, published 2003, Chapter XXIV, page 249",
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        },
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          "ref": "1959 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Brian Schofield, edited by Gerald Jordan, Naval Warfare In The Twentieth Century 1900—1945, Taylor & Francis, ‘Jacky’ Fisher, HMS Indomitable and the Dogger Bank Action: A Personal Memoir, page 66",
          "text": "The two German ships soon showed us and the battle-cruiser Indefatigable in company, a clean pair of heels, though the cruiser HMS Dublin managed to keep them in sight until they disappeared into the Straits of Messina to coal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 April, Bernard Brown, “The Sherlock Holmes of ‘G’ Division”, in Dan Norder, editor, Ripper Notes, number 22, Inklings Press, page 33",
          "text": "During the melee the suspect had run off, showing a clear pair of heels.",
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        "To run away; to make an escape quickly."
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        "(idiomatic) To run away; to make an escape quickly."
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