shoot through like a Bondi tram

Verb

shoot through like a Bondi tram (third-person singular simple present shoots through like a Bondi tram, present participle shooting through like a Bondi tram, simple past and past participle shot through like a Bondi tram)

1. (Australia, colloquial, informal, simile) To leave in haste.
   • […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197
   • When it came to the real thing, panic took over and the routine shot through like a Bondi tram, to be replaced by a three-ring circus.1994, Lydia Laube, The Long Way Home: Nobody Goes that Way, published 2002, page 22