Skeddadle - to run off or away hurriedly. Also scodaddle
Probable origin: Since both the Irish word âsgedadol,â meaning âscattered,â and the Scottish word âskiddle,â meaning âto spill or scatterâ, have the same meaning as the Greek "scedasis", meaning "scatter", it seems obvious that they both started out as Greek, and thus, that skedaddle is derived from Greek, "skedastikós", meaning, "able to disperse, equivalent to skedast(ós) dispersable" (verbid of skedannýnai to scatter, disperse).
All of you kids need to skeddadle and stay out of trouble.
"the devil's abroad", i.e., destruction and death from wild and furious forces are eminent; all hell has broken loose.
Reference, * Gillespie*, Sir Henry John Newbolt's poetic account of the Vellore Mutiny of 1806
"The Devil's abroad!" , shouted the deck hand as the giant fish rammed the flailing craft and stove in its timbers.