CUT AND RUN

(slang) leave; depart, especially hastily. And I probably ought to cut and run after turning the whole course upside down.

(slang) leave; depart, especially hastily. And I probably ought to cut and run after turning the whole course upside down.leave as hurriedly as possible; flee. (informal) abandon an unfavorable situation. When Ug was down there alongside the river with a busted leg, the first thought his companions had around him was that an evil spirit must have struck him down and they all cut and run for the hills and they left him sitting there with his broken leg, see? TCampaign to Handle Psychosomatic Ills (28 July 64)