get to grass

Verb

 * 1)  To leave a mine and get to the surface, particularly to escape an underground disaster.
 * 2) * 1896, George Manville Fenn, Sappers and Miners; The Flood beneath the Sea, chapter 42, “Mining Matters”:
 * “Come along. No fear of the water coming in, or I'd soon say let's get to grass.”
 * 1) * 2003, Tom Bliss, song “The Silverlode of Sark”, from album Downhill All the Way:
 * But love was no protection in the terror and the din When the island gave its answer, the day the sea broke in I heard the shouted warning, I tried to get to grass But the ladders jammed with miners, there was no room to pass I never was a sailor but I met a sailor's death Ninety feet below the ocean, I drew that dying breath
 * But love was no protection in the terror and the din When the island gave its answer, the day the sea broke in I heard the shouted warning, I tried to get to grass But the ladders jammed with miners, there was no room to pass I never was a sailor but I met a sailor's death Ninety feet below the ocean, I drew that dying breath