run its course

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run its course

if something runs its course, it continues naturally until it has finished. Many people believe that feminism has run its course. The doctor insisted I rest for a few days while the infection ran its course.

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Must not whatever CAN run its course of all things, have already run along that lane? Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context Past managements had forgotten them; palace revolutions had taken no notice of them; the history of France had run its course unknown to them; and nobody recollected their existence. The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context The first day, I would have bought a hundred and fifty of these clocks if I had the money--and I did buy three-- but on the third day the disease had run its course, I had convalesced, and was in the market once more--trying to sell. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context More results

References in classic literature

Must not whatever CAN run its course of all things, have already run along that lane?

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

Past managements had forgotten them; palace revolutions had taken no notice of them; the history of France had run its course unknown to them; and nobody recollected their existence.

The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context

The first day, I would have bought a hundred and fifty of these clocks if I had the money--and I did buy three-- but on the third day the disease had run its course, I had convalesced, and was in the market once more--trying to sell.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

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