beeline

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They have no qualms about interrupting your fast, late-for-class walk or your beeline for Chick-fil-A.

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  • They have no qualms about interrupting your fast, late-for-class walk or your beeline for Chick-fil-A. —  Technician RSS
  • We were never quite sure what we should have been doing, and just making a beeline for the enemy and opening up with all guns never quite worked out as intended. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Obama made a beeline for the Rust Belt when he left the Democratic National Convention last week. —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • Obama made a beeline for the Rust Belt when he left the —  Right Voices
  • Obama made a beeline for the industrial upper Midwest when he left the Democratic National Convention last week. —  Taipei Times
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  1. From the belief that a bee returns to its hive in a straight course.
 

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