RichThesaurus
make a break for it
vs
peg it
make a break for it
verb
To attempt to escape; to flee; to run away.
peg it
verb
To run away; to leg it; to scarper.
To die.
How often have the words
make a break for it
and
peg it
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)