show a clean pair of heels

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torun away; to make an escape quickly.1859,Charles Dickens, edited by Richard Maxwell,A Tale of Two Cities‎[1], Book the Second, Penguin Classics, published2003,→ISBN, Chapter XXIV, page249:‘[...]No, gentlemen; he'll alwaysshow’ema clean pair of heelsvery early in the scuffle, and sneak away.’1959March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, inTrains Illustrated, page133:But in the second column the "Britannia" Pacific , though with one coach less,showed a cleaner pair of heels, [...].1977, Brian Schofield, edited by Gerald Jordan,Naval Warfare In The Twentieth Century 1900—1945‎[2], Taylor & Francis,→ISBN, ‘Jacky’ Fisher, HMSIndomitableand the Dogger Bank Action: A Personal Memoir, page66:The two German ships soonshowedus and the battle-cruiserIndefatigablein company,a clean pair of heels, though the cruiser HMSDublinmanaged to keep them in sight until they disappeared into the Straits of Messina to coal.2005April, Bernard Brown, “The Sherlock Holmes of ‘G’ Division”, in Dan Norder, editor,Ripper Notes‎[3], number22, Inklings Press,→ISBN, page33:During the melee the suspect had run off,showing a clear pair of heels.

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