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Scuttle Out (To)

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To sneak off quickly, to skedaddle, to cut and run. Anglo-Saxon sceotan, to flee precipitately; scitel, an arrow; sceota, a darting fish, like the trout; scot, an arrow, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Scriptorēs Tres [the three writers]
Scriptorium
Scriptures
Scudamore (Sir)
Scudding under Bare Poles
Scullabogue Massacre
Sculls
Sculpture
Scutch
Scuttle
Scuttle Out (To)
Scylla
Scylla
Scythian or Tartarian Lamb (The)
Scythian Defiance
Sea
Sea-blue Bird of March (The)
Sea Deities
Sea-girt Isle
Sea-green Incorruptible (The)
Sea Legs