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The pause button for a life that won't stop hitting play.
means A getaway is a short trip or escape taken to relax and break from routine — or, in another sense, an escape from a place or pursuit, as in a quick exit after a crime.
from A plain English compound of "get" and "away," born from the phrasal verb "get away" — to depart, flee, or remove oneself. The verb is old and Germanic at the root, but bolting the two words into a single noun is comparatively recent, an English habit of the 19th century onward. The criminal sense ("the getaway car") and the leisure sense ("a weekend getaway") grew from the same simple idea: putting distance between yourself and wherever you no longer wish to be.
- car coined
- Term born from 1920s bank-robbery slang
- brain chemistry
- Anticipating a trip boosts happiness more than the trip
- micro works
- Even a single day off measurably lowers stress
- escape velocity
- Most people regret too-short breaks, never too-long ones
great train robbery — british criminals escaped with £2.3 million in cash in 1963
alcatraz prison escape — frank morris and the anglin brothers escaped from alcatraz in 1962
bonnie and clyde — american outlaws conducted armed robberies and getaways across the midwest in the 1930s