"retreat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Often the best way to beat a hasty retreat is simply to be direct.
- Here he could remain and watch, or, if necessary, make a hasty retreat.
- In fact, it had stopped not far from the point where they began their hasty retreat.
- The officer beat a hasty retreat, his men coming after him.
- But he couldn't think of a way to beat a hasty retreat.
- He left the money on the table and beat a hasty retreat.
- She and three other girls had beat a hasty retreat.
- He beat a hasty retreat, straight into the arms of the police.
- He made a hasty retreat into the safety of the streets.
- They all had a good laugh then at her hasty retreat.
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