run someone to ground

run (someone or something) to ground

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 ground. The record is quite rare, but I managed to run a copy to ground at a flea market in Atlanta.

run someone to ground

BRITISH

If you run someone to ground, you find them after a long search. The thief was eventually run to ground in a garden shed. Compare with run someone to earth. Note: In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox being chased back to its hole.

词组	run someone to ground
释义	run someone to ground run (someone or something) to ground 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 ground. The record is quite rare, but I managed to run a copy to ground at a flea market in Atlanta. See also: ground, run Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. run someone to ground BRITISH If you run someone to ground, you find them after a long search. The thief was eventually run to ground in a garden shed. Compare with run someone to earth. Note: In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox being chased back to its hole. See also: ground, 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 earth run to earth search out search for search for (someone or something) on the track of (someone or something)
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