run for it

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)

1. (informal) To escape from danger by running; to flee.

   Quick! We'd better run for it! Someone is coming.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Run for it!' I shouted, setting the example by starting up the cave as hard as my legs would carry me.