head for the hills

Verb

head for the hills (third-person singular simple present heads for the hills, present participle heading for the hills, simple past and past participle headed for the hills)

1. To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation.
   • Modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills.2006 July 13, Jeremy Caplan, “Comfy Camping”, in Time
2. (idiomatic) To go to a safe place; to seek refuge; to flee.
   • Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘only at the start of a steep downturn’ and advised investors to head for the hills.2008 June 19, “Builders bashed after housing subsidence”, in managementtoday.com, UK, retrieved 25 Jun 2008
   • Corbett has an interesting insight into the reactions of his colleagues from diverse backgrounds: "The ex-British Rail people responded much better than those from the private sector. In terms of helping, the private sector people headed for the hills, while the railway people, like Chris Leah [the...2026 March 4, Christian Wolmar, “Railtrack: what really happened”, in RAIL, number 1056, page 52