&c (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close
call; come off, impunity.
[Means of escape] loophole &c (opening) 260; path &c 627; refuse
&c 666; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
reprieve &c (deliverance) 672; liberation &c 750.
refugee &c (fugitive) 623.
V. escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good
one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of;
echapper belle [Fr.], save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the
storm &c (safe) 664; escape scot-free.
elude &c, make off &c (avoid) 623; march off &c (go away) 293;
give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers;
slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break
loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a
hole to creep out of.
disappear, vanish.
Adj. escaping, escaped &c v.. stolen away, fled.
Phr. the bird has flown the coop.