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Phrase(s): run with someone or something
to stay in the company of someone or some group. • Fred was out running with Larry when they met Vernon. • Let’s go out and run with the other guys this morning., Phrase(s): run with something
1. Lit. to run, showing a particular characteristic. • Sally runs with speed and grace. • Fred runs with tremendous speed. 2. Fig. to take over something and handle it aggressively and independently. • I know that Alice can handle the job. She will take it on and run with it. • I hope she runs with this next project.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Also, run around with. Socialize with; see RUN AROUND, def. 2. 2. Take as one's own, adopt; also, carry out enthusiastically. For example, He wanted to run with the idea and go public immediately. 3. run with the hare, hunt with the hounds. Support two opposing sides at the same time, as in He wants to increase the magazine's circulation along with its price? that's trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. This expression, alluding to being both hunter and hunted at the same time, dates from the 1400s and was already a proverb in John Heywood's 1546 collection.
American Heritage Idioms