Run a check/test/experiment etc on

Ask your doctor to run a test on your blood sugar levels.

34. HOLE IN CLOTHES

[intransitive] if a hole in tights or stockings runs, it gets bigger in a straight line

35. run drugs/guns

to bring drugs or guns into a country illegally in order to sell them

36 run in the family

if something such as a quality, disease, or skill runs in the family, many people in that family have it

Diabetes appears to run in families.

37. run a temperature/fever

to have a body temperature that is higher than normal, because you are ill

38. run a mile

informal to try very hard to avoid a particular situation or person because you do not want to deal with them

If someone asked me to marry them, I'd probably run a mile.

39. run late/early/on time

to arrive, go somewhere, or do something late, early, or at the right time

I'm running late, so I'll talk to you later. If the train runs on time, we'll be there by ten.

40. be running scared

to feel worried because someone who you are competing against is becoming very successful or powerful

The party are running scared.

41. come running

a) informal to react in a very eager way when someone asks or tells you to do something

He thinks he's only got to look at me and I'll come running.

b) especially spoken to ask someone for help, advice, or sympathy when you have a problem

Come running to

Well I warned you, so don't come running to me when it all goes wrong!

42. run your eyes over/along etc something

to look quickly at something

He ran his eyes along the books on the shelf.

43. run before you can walk

to try to do something difficult before you have learned the basic skills you need

A lot of language students want to run before they can walk.

44 run a (red) light

informal to drive quickly through a red traffic light instead of stopping

run across somebody/something phrasal verb

to meet someone or find something by chance

I ran across him at a conference in Milan. I ran across some old love letters while I was clearing out a cupboard.

run after somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to chase someone or something

He ran after her, calling her name.

2. informal to try to start a sexual relationship with someone

He's always running after younger women.

3. s poken to do a lot of things for someone else as though you were their servant

I can't keep running after you all day!

run along phrasal verb

used to tell a child to leave, or to tell someone that you must leave

Run along now! I've got work to finish. Oh, it's late. I'd better be running along.

run around phrasal verb

1. to run in an area while you are playing

The children were running around in the garden.

2. informal t o be very busy doing many small jobs

Maria was running around trying to get the house tidy.

ￚsee also runaround

run around after somebody phrasal verb

to do a lot of things for someone else as though you were their servant

I've spent all day running around after the kids.

run around with somebody phrasal verb

to spend a lot of time with someone, especially someone that other people disapprove of

He started running around with a gang of teenagers.

run away phrasal verb

1. to leave a place, especially secretly, in order to escape from someone or something

Run away from

Toby ran away from home at the age of 14.

2. to try to avoid dealing with a problem or difficult situation

Run away from

You can't just run away from your responsibilities.

3. to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them

They ran away together to get married.

run away with somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them - usually used to show disapproval

His wife has run away with another man.

2. run away with you

if your feelings, ideas etc run away with you, they start to control how you behave

Don't let your imagination run away with you!

3. your tongue runs away with you

if your tongue runs away with you, you say something that you did not intend to say

4. run away with the idea/impression (that)

spoken t o think that something is true when it is not

Don't run away with the impression that he doesn't care.

5. informal to win a competition or sports game very easily

The Reds ran away with the championship.

run something by/past somebody phrasal verb

1. to tell someone something so that they can give you their opinion

Let me run some figures by you. I just wanted to run it past you and see what you thought.

2. run that by me again

spoken used to ask someone to repeat what they have just said because you did not completely understand it

run down phrasal verb

1. run somebody/something ↔ down

to drive into a person or animal and kill or injure them

Their daughter was run down by a car.

2. run somebody/something ↔ down

informal to criticize someone or something in a way that is unfair

There's a lot of good things about homeopathic treatment. I'm certainly not running it down.

3. if a clock, machine, battery etc runs down, it has no more power and stops working

4. to make a company, organization etc gradually reduce in size, especially in order to close it in the future, or to gradually reduce in size

run something ↔ down

Many smaller local hospitals are being run down.

The business had been running down for a long time.

5. if a supply of something runs down, or if you run it down, there gradually becomes less of it

Crude oil reserves are running down.

run something ↔ down

Electricity generating companies are running down stocks and cutting purchases.

6. run down something

to read a list of people or things

Let me just run down the list of people who've been invited.

7. run somebody/something down

to find someone or something after searching for a long time

I finally ran him down at his new office in Glendale.

ￚsee also rundown, run-down

run somebody/something ↔ in phrasal verb

1. to drive a new car slowly and carefully for a period of time so you do not damage its engine

2. old-fashioned if the police run a criminal in, they catch him or her

run into somebody/something phrasal verb

1. to start to experience a difficult or unpleasant situation

He ran into criticism after remarks he made in a television interview.

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