Travel

hit the road

leave to travel

To leave a place and start travelling somewhere.

B1 very common mostly spoken

Hear it in real life

Are you staying for dinner?

I can't, sorry. We need to hit the road.

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Let's hit the road early so we can avoid the traffic.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: hit on the road

Say: hit the road

The idiom does not use "on" before "the road."

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How it fits in a sentence.

hit the road; hit the road at...

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Let's hit the road early so we can avoid the traffic.

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hit the road

leave to travel

“Let's hit the road early so we can avoid the traffic.”

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