shoot through

English

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

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot,‎ through.
A mostly novelized story shot through with some factual names and dates.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To leave.
- 1977, Valmai Phillips, Romance of Australian Lighthouses, unidentified page:
  He did not mind the new store, but when some stirrer said that there was a motel coming, he shot through to find a better hole further inland, muttering that 'the place is getting as big as one of them southern city places!’
- 1982, James K. Baxter, Howard McNaughton., Collected Plays, page 123:
  He shoots through to Australia, and I'm left with the kid.
- 2008, Elizabeth Bruce, A Show Off, Just Like Your Father, page 68:
  But on learning it was twins he shot through to Queensland into – I later discovered – the waiting arms of his lover.
- 2010, Stephen Lacey, Henry Loves Jazz: The Diary of a Reluctant Father, unnumbered page:
  What Father Nelson must have made of our all-too-candid (and slightly embellished) responses is anybody's guess, but it wasn't long before he shot through to New Guinea to work as a missionary with the kind of tribesmen who wear penis gourds.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) To die.
- 1957, Rolf Harris, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport:
  Play your didgeridoo, Blue / Play your didgeridoo / Ah, like, keep playin' 'til I shoot through, Blue / Play your didgeridoo