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fly the coop
vs
go on the lam
fly the coop
verb
To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee.
To escape from a pen or similar enclosure.
go on the lam
How often have the words
fly the coop
and
go on the lam
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)