get (the hell) out of Dodge



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get (the hell) out of Dodge

To leave or depart from a place, especially quickly or with marked urgency. A reference to Dodge City, Kansas, the clichéd setting of cowboy and western films from the early to mid-1900s. It looks like things are getting pretty tense in here, let's get out of Dodge! With our creditors becoming increasingly aggressive, we decided to just get the hell out of Dodge and leave it all behind.
See also: dodge, get, of, out

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Stane-Slovene
Akivaah-KEE-vahHebrew
RÓŻARUW-zhahPolish
Petronius-Ancient Roman
Braden['breidn]
LyovLYOFRussian