I see I was in a fix now. But it warn't no use to worry; there warn't nothing to do but just hold still, and try and be ready to stand from under when the lightning struck. — Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884.
to escape something falling or being thrown from above
Silbentrennung
to es·cape some·thing fall·ing or be·ing thrown from a·bove