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The art of leaving a situation before it can include you in its plans.
means To run away swiftly from danger, trouble, or anything threatening enough to override dignity.
from From Old English fleon, to run from peril — kin to German fliehen, and a distant cousin of fly, because escape and flight have always shared wings.
Not fleaThe bug just hitches rides on the verb.
Past tenseBecomes fled, an even quicker exit.
Fight-or-flightFlee is biology's older, faster vote.