Meaning of run around | Babel Free

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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, around.

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Examples

“Natrum sulp. is my specific for inflammations of the matrix of the nails or " run arounds."”

“The sketch shows the arrangement of run arounds for bringing the loaded trips into the bottom and for returning the empties to the proper quarter of the mine.”

“The Committee contends : First, that the turn of Brakeuien W. R. Tighe and W. F. Haworth was run around at Baird by the crews of Conductors Schwartz, Russell, Hubbard, and Whaley and thereby lost 200 miles, or four 50-mile run arounds.”

“We let the dog off the lead so it could have a run around.”

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