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Phrase(s): run around
1. to run here and there. • Why are you running around? Sit down and be quiet. • Please stop running around. You are making me nervous. 2. to go here and there having meetings or doing errands. • I’ve been running around all day, shopping for the party tonight. • I am so tired of running around, carting children to various places.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Go about hurriedly here and there, as in I have been running around all day so I want to stay home tonight and relax. [Early 1900s] 2. Also, run around with. Associate or consort with socially, as in At college she began to run around with a very liberal group. [Late 1800s] 3. Be sexually unfaithful, as in She caught him running around just once too often and finally sued for divorce. [Early 1900s]
American Heritage Idioms