Tim hasn't been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn't time to run around.
Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together.
Ruth runs around with girls who like to go dancing.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
run around — or[chase around] {v.}, {informal} To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. * /Tim hasn t been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn t time to run around./ * /Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together./… … Dictionary of American idioms
run around — or[chase around] {v.}, {informal} To go to different places for company and pleasure; be friends. * /Tim hasn t been to a dance all year; with school work and his job, he hasn t time to run around./ * /Chuck and Jim chase around a lot together./… … Dictionary of American idioms
Run around — can refer to: *Runaround, a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov *Runaround (game show), a children s television game show originally devised by Heatter Quigley Productions in the USA in 1971 2 *Run around, a song written by Blues Traveler … Wikipedia
Run-around — Run a*round , n. (Med.) A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
run-around — [n] avoidance come off, delay, detour, difficulty, diversion, elusion, escape, escaping, eschewal, evasion, inertia, postponement, roundabout, shunning; concepts 30,121 Ant. challenge, facing, meeting … New thesaurus
run around — verb play boisterously (Freq. 3) The children frolicked in the garden the gamboling lambs in the meadows The toddlers romped in the playroom • Syn: ↑frolic, ↑lark, ↑rollick, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Run-Around — Infobox Single Name = Run Around Artist = Blues Traveler from Album = four B side = Trust In Trust Regarding Steven The Poignant and Epic Saga of Featherhead and Lucky Lack Escaping Released = February 28, 1995 Format = CD Recorded = Spring 1994… … Wikipedia
run around — phrasal verb run around or run round [intransitive] Word forms run around : present tense I/you/we/they run around he/she/it runs around present participle running around past tense ran around past participle run around to be very busy doing a… … English dictionary
run around — v. (D; intr.) to run around with (he run arounds around with a fast crowd) * * * [ rʌnə raʊnd] (D; intr.) to run around with (he run arounds around with a fast crowd) … Combinatory dictionary
run around — UK US run around Phrasal Verb with run({{}}/rʌn/ verb (running, ran, run) ► to be very busy doing a lot of different things: »I ve been running around all morning trying to get things ready for the conference … Financial and business terms
