a spăla putina

to make off

to make one's escape / a brush

to fling / to pick up / to take to one's heels

to show a clean pair of heels

to act / to play the invisible

to cut one's sticks

to bundle in / off / out

to pack away / off

to whistle off

to sling / to take one's hook

sl. to skedaddle

sl. to walk / to stump one's chalks

amer. to take to the hills

to take (run-out) powder

amer. to sashay off

sl. amer. to dig out

to jump one's bail

to vamoose.