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.

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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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