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run around

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run around 
1. to run here and there. Why are you running around? Sit down and be quiet. Please stop running around. You are making me nervous.
2. to go here and there having meetings or doing errands. I've been running around all day, shopping for the party tonight. I am so tired of running around, carting children to various places.
See also: around, run

run around
to go from place to place I'm tired of running around on crutches. They are not just running around hoping for work, they're people with a serious business proposal.
See also: around, run


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He placed the hat upon the glass floor, made a pass with his hand, and then removed the hat, displaying a little white piglet no bigger than a mouse, which began to run around here and there and to grunt and squeal in a tiny, shrill voice.
He checked it and attempted to haul in, but found that the fish had run around a coral branch.
They were coated solidly with ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames.
 
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