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run off with

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run off with someone
to leave your partner or home to begin a new relationship with someone. He has run off with a woman he met at the office.
See also: run


run off with something
to take something that does not belong to you. The dog ran off with my shoe.
See also: run


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And that's the reason I never would work for lonely widow old women ashore, when I kept my job-shop in the Vineyard; they might have taken it into their lonely old heads to run off with me.
"But," he continued, in his fierce guttural tones, "if you run off with the red girl it is I who shall have to account to Tal Hajus; it is I who shall have to face Tars Tarkas, and either demonstrate my right to command, or the metal from my dead carcass will go to a better man, for such is the custom of the Tharks.
She sent Mercury, the messenger of the gods, to look for it, for she didn't dare leave the rainbow again, lest somebody should run off with that too.
 
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