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go around/round in circles

if you go round in circles when you are discussing something or trying to achieve something, you do not make any progress because you keep going back to the same subjects or the same problems. I need some more data to work on, otherwise I'm just going round in circles. We can't go round in circles all day - someone will have to make a decision.

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Byline: JOHN SLIM A FINE troupe of young actors find themselves stuck with a surreal story of a repressed soldier who suffers sundry indignities, tends to run round in circles and has a penchant for turning up without his trousers. REVIEW: Silly story gives cast a bum deal; WOYZECK Birmingham School ... by Birmingham Mail (England) Maxine Newell, Basildon, Essex Why we all run round in circles YOU asked how come athletic events are run in an anti-clockwise direction? DEAR JO by The Mirror (London, England)			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 rhymes run rings around run riot run round in circles run scared run short Run that by again run the gamut run the gantlet run the gauntlet run the good race run the risk run the show run through run to run to earth run to ground run up run up against run up the flagpole run up to some place run with run with it run with the hare and hunt with the hounds run-of-the-mill runaround rung running running high			run ragged run ragged run rampant Run rate Run rate Run Rates run rhymes run rings around run rings around run rings around run rings around run rings around run rings around run rings around someone run rings round run rings round run rings round run rings round run rings round run rings round Run Riot Run Riot run risks run risks run risks run risks run risks run roughshod run roughshod over run roughshod over someone or something run round in circles Run Run Shaw Library Run Sarah Run run scared run scared run scared run scared run scared run short run short run short run short run short run short of run short of run short of run short of run something at full blast run something by the book run something in Run Ss User Launchpad Run Steel Run Steel Run support run swiftly run tests on Run that by again Run the Bank Run the Business run the chance Run the Freak Away

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go around in circles (redirected from run round in circles)

go around in circles
(redirected from run round in circles)