running

See:
  • (the) clock is running
  • a running battle
  • a running start
  • be in the running
  • be running around in circles
  • be running around like a headless chicken
  • be running on empty
  • be running on fumes
  • bow out of the running
  • come running
  • cut and run
  • days running
  • do (all) the running
  • don't come running to me if you break your leg
  • eat and run
  • for (some) days running
  • for (some) months running
  • for (some) weeks running
  • for (some) years running
  • get (one's) motor running
  • get someone’s motor running
  • give (one) running shoes
  • hit the ground running
  • hit the ground running, to
  • hold with the hare and run with the hounds
  • in the running
  • in/out of the running
  • make (all) the running
  • make the running
  • meter is running, the
  • months running
  • off and running
  • off to a running start
  • out of the running
  • run
  • run (a)round in circles
  • run (one) off (one's) feet
  • run (one) through
  • run (one's) feet off
  • run (one's) fingers through (one's) hair
  • run (one's) hand through (one's) hair
  • run (one's) head against a brick wall
  • run (one's) mouth
  • run (one's) own show
  • run (oneself or something) into the ground
  • run (someone or something) close
  • run (something) by (one)
  • run (something) by (one) again
  • run (something) by (one) one more time
  • run (something) into (something)
  • run (something) past (one)
  • run (something) up the flagpole
  • run (up) a tab
  • run a brush through (one's) hair
  • run a comb through (one's) hair
  • run a fever
  • run a make on (someone or something)
  • run a mile
  • run a red light
  • run a risk
  • run a taut ship
  • run a temperature
  • run a tight ship
  • run about
  • run about like a headless chicken
  • run across
  • run adrift
  • run afoul of (someone or something)
  • run after (someone or something)
  • run aground
  • run ahead
  • run along
  • run amok
  • run amuck
  • run an errand
  • run an/(one's) eye over (something)
  • run around
  • run around after (someone or something)
  • run around like a blue-arsed fly
  • run around like a chicken with its head cut off
  • run around like a headless chicken
  • run around with (someone)
  • run as (something)
  • run as fast as (one's) legs can carry (one)
  • run at (someone or something)
  • run at a fast clip
  • run away with (one)
  • run away with (one's) tail between (one's) legs
  • run away with (something)
  • run away with the idea
  • run away with the notion
  • run back
  • run back (to someone or something)
  • run back over
  • run behind
  • run between (someone or something)
  • run by (some place)
  • run circles around (someone or something)
  • run circles round (someone or something)
  • run counter to (someone or something)
  • run down
  • run down the clock
  • run down to (someone or something)
  • run dry
  • run for (one's) life
  • run for (something)
  • run for it
  • run for the hills
  • run foul of (someone or something)
  • run from (someone or something)
  • run from (someone or something) to (someone or something
  • run high
  • run hot and cold
  • run in
  • run in (one's) blood
  • run in circles
  • run in place
  • run in the blood
  • run interference
  • run into (someone, something, or some place)
  • run into a brick wall
  • run into a stone wall
  • run into debt
  • run into the sand
  • run it down (to one)
  • run it down for (one)
  • run late
  • run like clockwork
  • run like the wind
  • run low
  • run off
  • run off at the mouth
  • run off in all directions
  • run off the smell of an oily rag
  • run off with (one)
  • run off with (something)
  • run on
  • run on (something)
  • run on all cylinders
  • run on the smell of an oily rag
  • run onto (something)
  • run out
  • run out at (someone or something)
  • run out of (one's) skin
  • run out of (something or some place)
  • run out of gas
  • run out of road
  • run out of steam
  • run out of time
  • run out of town
  • run out on (someone or something)
  • run out the clock
  • run over
  • run over to (someone or something)
  • run over with (something)
  • run past
  • run past (someone or something)
  • run rampant
  • run rhymes
  • run rings around (someone or something)
  • run rings round (someone or something)
  • run riot
  • run roughshod over (someone or something)
  • run scared
  • run short
  • run short of (something)
  • run the clock down
  • run the clock out
  • run the gamut
  • run the good race
  • run the risk
  • run the risk of (something)
  • run the rule over (one)
  • run the show
  • run through (one)
  • run through (something)
  • run to
  • run to fat
  • run to form
  • run to seed
  • run true to form
  • run up
  • run up against (someone or something)
  • run up on (someone or something)
  • run up to (someone, something, or some place)
  • run wild
  • run with
  • run with it
  • run with scissors
  • run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  • running about like a headless chicken
  • running battle
  • running gag
  • running high
  • running joke
  • running on empty
  • running on fumes
  • running smobble
  • running start
  • sands are running out
  • start a hare (running)
  • take a running jump
  • take a running jump in a/the lake
  • Take a running jump in the lake!
  • Take a running jump!
  • take the ball and run (with it)
  • take up the running
  • the inmates are running the asylum
  • the lunatics are running the asylum
  • the meter is running
  • the sands are running out
  • turn tail and run
  • up and running
  • weeks running
  • years running
  • you must be tired, because you've been running through my mind all day
References in classic literature
In front he saw our artillerymen, some of whom were fighting, while others, having abandoned their guns, were running toward him.
And the next day found them still running. They were running over the surface of a world frozen and dead.
One moonlight night, running through the quiet forest, One Eye suddenly halted.
PETER never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree.
Thank God!" he said, splashing with his soaked boots through the standing water and running up to them.
They broke before him like water, turning, and running, and falling one against another in their haste.
Yet he was no sooner out than he was back again, being as cautious as he was brave; and meanwhile the seamen continued running and crying out as if he was still behind them; and we heard them tumble one upon another into the forecastle, and clap-to the hatch upon the top.
'There's the White Queen running across the country!
"Well, sir," said East, stepping out, and not liking that the Doctor should think lightly of his running powers, "we got round Barby all right; but then -"
There is a special providence over school-boys as well as sailors, or they must have upset twenty times in the first five miles--sometimes actually abreast of one another, and the boys on the roofs exchanging volleys of peas; now nearly running over a post-chaise which had started before them; now half-way up a bank; now with a wheel and a half over a yawning ditch: and all this in a dark morning, with nothing but their own lamps to guide them.
Folks got up everywheres in the crowd, and worked their way just by main strength to the mourners' bench, with the tears running down their faces; and when all the mourners had got up there to the front benches in a crowd, they sung and shouted and flung themselves down on the straw, just crazy and wild.
So the king went all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them kiss him for to remember him by; and he always done it; and some of them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times -- and he was invited to stay a week; and everybody wanted him to live in their houses, and said they'd think it was an honor; but he said as this was the last day of the camp-meeting he couldn't do no good, and besides he was in a sweat to get to the Indian Ocean right off and go to work on the pirates.
There was very little excitement in the station, as the officials, failing to realise that anything further than a breakdown between Byfleet and Woking junction had occurred, were running the theatre trains which usually passed through Woking round by Virginia Water or Guildford.
He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells.
All this time the Doctor and his animals were running through the forest towards the Land of the Monkeys as fast as they could go.