run riot

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run riot

1. if people run riot, they behave in a way that is not controlled, running in all directions or being noisy or violent. I dread them coming round because they let their kids run riot.

2. if your imagination runs riot, you have a lot of strange, exciting, or surprising thoughts. My imagination was running riot, thinking of all the ways that I could spend the money.

See also: riot, run

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While I was allowing my fancy to run riot in wild conjecture on the possible explanation of the strange anomalies which I had so far met with on Mars, Sola returned bearing both food and drink. A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context I became almost frantic as I let my imagination run riot among the possibilities for which this clicking instrument might stand. Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context And as he let his imaginings run riot they aroused within him a bestial jealousy of Mohammed Beyd, and a great fear that the other might encompass his base designs upon the defenseless girl. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context More results

References in classic literature

While I was allowing my fancy to run riot in wild conjecture on the possible explanation of the strange anomalies which I had so far met with on Mars, Sola returned bearing both food and drink.

A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

I became almost frantic as I let my imagination run riot among the possibilities for which this clicking instrument might stand.

Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

And as he let his imaginings run riot they aroused within him a bestial jealousy of Mohammed Beyd, and a great fear that the other might encompass his base designs upon the defenseless girl.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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