What does hit the road mean?
Idiom Meaning:
leave from somewhere
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
Bound for Glory (1976)
Time of Scene:
Carl: Hey, Wood.
Woody Guthrie: Yeah.
Old Man Jenkins: Cherry wine. Goddamit, Woody. I got half a notion to pull up stakes and hit the road for California.
Carl: I been thinking about down the Gulf of Mexico or the Rio Grande valley. Just somewheres I can grow some fruit, peaches. Them Indian blood peaches with that red meat.
Connie and Carla (2004)
Time of Scene:
Connie: Let your eyes crinkle, let your skin wrinkle. Our lines show that we’ve lived. If he doesn’t love you when you look like a map, tell him to hit the road.
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Time of Scene:
Jack Colton: I understand you have a car. We would like to buy it or rent it, we need to get to a town.
Juan: What do you call this I’m living in, a pigsty?
Jack Colton: Oh, no this is great.
Juan: Hit the road.
Jack Colton: No, senor, see we…
Juan: Hit. The. Road.
Jack Colton: But we…
Juan: Vaya con dios, gringo.
Jack Colton: Okay, Joan Wilder, write us out of this one.
Juan: Joan Wilder. Joan Wilder? The Joan Wilder?
Juan: You are Joan Wilder, the novelist?
Joan Wilder: Well, yes I am.
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