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Running away, especially from the police, as in He's always in some kind of trouble and perpetually on the lam . The origin of this slangy term of the 1800s is not known.Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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