head for the hills

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head for the hills (third-person singular simple present heads for the hills, present participle heading for the hills, simple past and past participle headed for the hills)

1. To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation.
   • 2006 July 13, Jeremy Caplan, “Comfy Camping”, in Time:

     Modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills.

2. (idiomatic) To go to a safe place; to seek refuge; to flee.
   • 2008 June 19, “Builders bashed after housing subsidence”, in managementtoday.com, UK, retrieved 25 June 2008:

     Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘only at the start of a steep downturn’ and advised investors to head for the hills.