Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

Удрать

English translation:

took off/scampered away

Added to glossary by PaulinaK
Jan 6, 2011 19:18
13 yrs ago
Russian term

Удрать

Russian to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Текст описывает 2-х летнего ребенка:

* Она увидев машину сказала сама себе "папа", а когда увидела папу и маму удрала от них, подзабыла за полмесяца. *

Discussion

PaulinaK (asker) Jan 6, 2011:
don't Run Away Please note that I know what this expression means in Russian - I am looking for a comparable slang term or idiomatic expression in English.

Proposed translations

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took off/scampered away

An odd reaction, no?
Peer comment(s):

agree Kiwiland Bear : Scampered - best fit I think for the described person & situation
3 hrs
agree cyhul
6 hrs
agree Fernsucht
11 hrs
agree dennis_bg : yes, scampered away
11 hrs
agree Oleksandr Kolot (X) : yes (scampered)
13 hrs
agree LanaUK : scampered away
18 hrs
agree Leigh Mosley : or "scampered off"
19 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you, Deborah! *Scampered away* it is, then! (May seem like an odd reaction for an older child, but totally believable judging by my personal experience with toddlers :)"
3 mins

give leg bail

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52 mins

skidaddle

audience depending
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59 mins

bolted (off) (on smb); ran out on smb; took off; did a vanishing act; dashed off; hightailed it

... zoomed off; skedaddled (as in a panic), etc
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1 hr

flee

–verb (used with object)
3.
to run away from (a place, person, etc.).
http://goo.gl/EVtti

It's not slangy or anything, however, I think it has the very idea of the source sentence.
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