run dry

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run dry

to be all used completely We have been told the Social Security trust fund will run dry in a few more years because so many people will be retiring.

See also: dry, run

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His flow of language seemed at last to have run dry. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context A cog must have slipped or an oil- cup run dry, for the postman brought him one morning a short, thin envelope. Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context			run amok run an errand run and run run around run around after run around like a blue-arsed fly run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles run around with run as run at run away run away with run back run back over run back to run before can walk run behind run between run by run circles around run counter to run deep run down run down some lines run down to run dry run eye over run feet off run fingers through hair run for run for it run for life run from run from to run head against a brick wall run high run in run in circles run in place run in the family run interference run into run into a stone wall run into the ground run it down run its course run like clockwork run like the wind run low run mouth run off			Run Charges Run chart Run Charts run checks on run circles around run close run close run close run close Run Commands Run Condition Word Run Conservative run counter run counter run counter run counter run counter to run counter to run deep run diagram run documentation run down run down run down run down run down run down a coast Run Down Period run down some lines run down to run dry run errands run eye over run feet off run fingers through hair Run flat tire run for run for Run for Cover run for it run for it run for it run for it run for it run for life Run for Ovarian Cancer Run for Record Run For Something Better run for the hills Run for the Money Run for the Son Run For The Wall Run for Them All Run for Your Life Run Form Field Recognition run foul run foul run foul run foul run foul of run foul of

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