have a run-in with someone/something
have a run-in with (someone)
To have an unpleasant interaction with someone. I'm not going to her party because my ex-boyfriend will be there, and I don't want to have a run-in with him.
See also: have
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
have a run-in (with someone/something)
tv. to have trouble with someone or something. I had a run-in with Mrs. Wilson. She’s a hard case.
See also: have, someone, something
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- have a run-in
- have a run-in with (someone)
- have a run-in with somebody
- absent (oneself) from
- beat a (hasty) retreat
- beat a hasty retreat
- beat a retreat
- hasty
- retreat
- make a spectacle of (oneself)