Re: Colloquial (Irish) English: "Peg it" = "run away"?

Neil Greenough wrote:

> Tron,
>
> Yes you are right! "Peg it!" means "to run off." I am from Liverpool and the
> majority of people here are from Irish decent, and we use that phrase here!

Yet another example of how England and America are two peoples separated by a 
common tongue.

In common American vernacular, when one says "he pegged it" the meaning is "he 
scored a perfect hit." Given the nature of the quotation, the typical American 
reading -- as I understand it  -- would be "he threw a rock at the windshield 
and hit it square on." <G>

Tony