run someone to earth

run (someone or something) to earth

To succeed in tracking down the location of someone or something after an extensive or exhaustive search. After nearly three months of searching, we finally ran the suspects to earth. The record is quite rare, but I managed to run a copy to earth at a flea market in Atlanta.

run someone to earth

BRITISH

If you run someone to earth, you find them after a long search. Last month, he was run to earth by Greenpeace at his home in Bridgehampton. Compare with run someone to ground. Note: A fox's hole is called an earth. In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox being chased back to its earth.

词组	run someone to earth
释义	run someone to earth run (someone or something) to earth To succeed in tracking down the location of someone or something after an extensive or exhaustive search. After nearly three months of searching, we finally ran the suspects to earth. The record is quite rare, but I managed to run a copy to earth at a flea market in Atlanta. See also: earth, run Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. run someone to earth BRITISH If you run someone to earth, you find them after a long search. Last month, he was run to earth by Greenpeace at his home in Bridgehampton. Compare with run someone to ground. Note: A fox's hole is called an earth. In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox being chased back to its earth. See also: earth, run, someone Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: run (someone or something) to earth run (someone or something) to ground run somebody/something to earth/ground run someone or something to earth run someone to ground run to earth search out search for search for (someone or something) on the track of (someone or something)
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