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make yourself scarce

  (informal)

to leave, especially in order to avoid trouble I think you'd better make yourself scarce - at least until I've had a chance to talk to your father.

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make (oneself) scarce

Informal

1. To stay away; be absent or elusive.

2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond.

See also: make, scarce