Удрать

English translation: took off/scampered away

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Russian term or phrase:	Удрать
English translation:	took off/scampered away
Entered by:	PaulinaK

19:18 Jan 6, 2011

Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: Удрать

Текст описывает 2-х летнего ребенка:

* Она увидев машину сказала сама себе "папа", а когда увидела папу и маму удрала от них, подзабыла за полмесяца. *

PaulinaK KudoZ activity Questions: 53 (none open) Answers: 29 United States
Local time: 18:34

took off/scampered away

Explanation:
An odd reaction, no?

Selected response from:

Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 21:34

Grading comment

Thank you, Deborah! *Scampered away* it is, then! (May seem like an odd reaction for an older child, but totally believable judging by my personal experience with toddlers :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +7

took off/scampered away

Deborah Hoffman

give leg bail

Alexander Ryshow

skidaddle

Judith Hehir

bolted (off) (on smb); ran out on smb; took off; did a vanishing act; dashed off; hightailed it

Yuri Larin

flee

Oleksiy Markunin

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

3 mins confidence:

give leg bail

Explanation:

Alexander Ryshow
Belarus
Local time: 04:34
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Russian
PRO pts in category: 8

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +7

took off/scampered away

Explanation:
An odd reaction, no?

Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 21:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thank you, Deborah! *Scampered away* it is, then! (May seem like an odd reaction for an older child, but totally believable judging by my personal experience with toddlers :)

52 mins confidence:

skidaddle

Explanation:
audience depending

Judith Hehir
United States
Local time: 21:34
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 31

59 mins confidence:

bolted (off) (on smb); ran out on smb; took off; did a vanishing act; dashed off; hightailed it

Explanation:
... zoomed off; skedaddled (as in a panic), etc

Yuri Larin
Ukraine
Local time: 04:34
Native speaker of:

Russian,

Ukrainian
PRO pts in category: 20

1 hr confidence:

flee

Explanation:
–verb (used with object)
3.
to run away from (a place, person, etc.).
http://goo.gl/EVtti

It's not slangy or anything, however, I think it has the very idea of the source sentence.

Oleksiy Markunin
Canada
Local time: 21:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 8

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