race to

race to (someone or something)

To move, run, drive, etc., in a very hurried or frantic manner to some person, thing, or destination. I have to race to the bank so I can deposit this check before they close. Tommy raced to his teacher to tell him what happened.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

race to someone or something

to run to someone or something. The girls raced to the front room. We all raced to Mary, who had the candy.
See also: race
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • race to (someone or something)
  • race to some place
  • race up to
  • race up to (someone or something)
  • race into
  • race into (someone or something)
  • race around
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) barrel
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • one rotten apple spoils the (whole) bunch
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Al Faisal bagged a crucial podium finish in the 14th and final race of the fifth round after he had finished fourth in the previous race to garner vital points (326 points) and increase his lead over his nearest rival, Berkay Besler of Turkey (285), to 41 points with just two more two races of round six to go in the series.
One entrant is the 74-year-old, gaff-rigged, timber-built Maluka that Langman restored for its first race to Hobart.
Katz Rothman reveals race to be a house of mirrors with its dizzying interruptions and distortions, reflections and reflexes.
The argument that "the proximity of the Negro race to good property means its undoing" was by far the most oft-repeated mantra of segregationists, from the leadership to the grassroots.
Over the centuries, some people have used race to set discriminatory categories and then give themselves privileges and take privileges from others.
Finally, two non-championship races for the Caterham Race Academy on Saturday will give the racing newcomers an extra race to wrap up their first season of motorsport.
This undercut the Bierbaums' goal of diversification, and added yet another fantastic race to the Legion's ranks.
In a sense, Munoz offers a more poststructurally savvy but equally dialectical version of Du Bois's account of minority identity formation; Fanon, too, refuses to relegate race to either an "essence" or a social construction and attempts to balance both in his existential phenomenology.
This, the president said, was "the nub of the affirmative action debate" He noted, "Politically and substantively you'll help more people and build more unity by having an economic basis for social policy now." Did someone slip Reaching Beyond Race to the president before the event?
Whenever they would ask DPRS workers about adopting him, they were told there was "no way" because Matthew is black and would go to a black home--despite a state statute prohibiting DPRS from using race to delay, deny, or otherwise discriminate in adoption placement.
The legal definition of race was the "objective" test propounded by racist theorists of the day who described race to be immutable, scientific, biologically determined-an unsullied fact of the blood rather than a volatile and violently imposed regime of social hierarchy.
Steinberg notes, for example, that in the 1300 pages of Myrdal's An American Dilemma, which details virtually every facet of American race relations, there is "no mention of the need for civil rights legislation." At the time, he adds, both The Nation and The New Republic, the leading liberal journals, tended to "subsume race to class" even going "so far as to portray lynching during the Depression as having more to do with class than with race." Steinberg's critique of liberals in the 1940s is right on target: Too many of them overlooked racism.
Thus the paradigm shifts from the science of race to the hermeneutics of the implications of race in culture.