take to the woods

Questions about take to the woods

What does take to the woods mean?

take to the woods means "flee; take to one's heels; cut and run".

What is another word for take to the woods?

Close synonyms include scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take to the woods a common word?

take to the woods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.