run its course

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run its course

[for something] to continue through its cycle of existence, especially a disease. Sorry. There is no medicine for it. It will just have to run its course.

See also: course, run

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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			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 off at the mouth run off in all directions run off with run on run on all cylinders run onto run out run out at run out of run out of gas run out of some place run out of steam run out of time run out on run out the clock run over run over to run over with run ragged run rampant			run in place run in place run in place run in place run in pursuit run in the family run interference run interference run interference run interference run interference run into run into run into run into run into run into a stone wall run into debt run into each other run into someone run into the ground run into the ground run into the ground run into the ground run into the ground run into the sand run into the sand run into the sand Run it by again run it down run its course Run length encoding Run length encoding Run length encoding Run Length Limited Run Length Limited Run Length Limited Run Length Smoothing Algorithm Run level Run Level Zero Run Like a Screaming Girl Run Like an Antelope run like clockwork run like hell run like stink run like the wind run line Run Load Ampere run low run low run low run low run low Run magazine Run magazine Run magazine Run magazine Run Mode Monitor run molding run motor run mouth

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