Cut And Run
To “cut and run” means to leave swiftly. It’s not 100% proven that this is nautical based, but its first written instance is ship related so it looks likely. If a ship needed to leave swiftly, either due to bad weather or an attack, rather than go through the lengthy process of bringing up the anchor, they would cut the anchor’s rope and run with the wind.
The earliest usage of the phrase was in 1704 in the Boston News Letter: “Cap. Vaughn rode by said Ship, but cut & run.”
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