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run off |
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run someone off to force someone to leave suddenly. Barlow wouldn't leave, so she ran him off by threatening to call the police. Dad tried to run off some people who were camping on our land, but they wouldn't leave. See also: run run off to leave suddenly. She punched me in the shoulder and ran off. See also: run run off something 1. to make electronic or print copies of something. I'll just run these copies off before the meeting starts. He ran off 50 copies of the cassette and mailed them to agents. 2. to score points quickly in a competition. Iowa ran off 12 points and took the lead. See also: run How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Wharton made extensive stylistic, punctuation, and spelling changes and revisions between the serial and book publication, and more than thirty subsequent changes were made after the second impression of the book edition had been run off. On finding that the Hare also had run off, he said, "I am rightly served, for having let go of the food that I had in my hand for the chance of obtaining more. There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow--were not all these against Phileas Fogg? |
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