run afoul of (someone/something)

to act in a way not allowed by rules or the law.

Rodman ran afoul of the team's rules and was kept out of the next game.

He ran afoul of his supervisor, who complained to the mayor about his work.

• the last word in something
• the law of averages
• the law of the jungle
• the lay of the land
• the least can do
• the least you can do
• the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
• the lesser of two evils
• luck into something
• luck of the draw
• luck out
• lull before the storm
• lull into
• lull into a false sense of security
• lull into doing something
• lull into something
• lull someone into a false sense of security
• lull you into
• lull you into doing something
• lull you into something
• lump in throat
• lump in your throat
• mad about
• mad about someone
• mad about something