beat a retreat

If overwhelmed, he will beat a retreat back to his starting point.

An attempt will be made to beat a retreat before the building goes up.

All the others had beat a quick retreat from danger.

They beat a retreat up the steps and into the station.

If he brings a large force, we'll beat a retreat and think up another plot.

Unfortunately it was beating a retreat away from me, so no photo.

Actually, I had been preparing to beat a retreat, but this guy wasn't about to leave me that choice.

All for later; she beat a quick retreat to the lab.

Or one can do as we did, and beat a temporary retreat.

Thus, he had to beat a retreat with 31 R5e3.