run off

run off
run off
1. to flee. •

The children rang our doorbell and then ran off.

They ran off as fast as they could.

2. to have diarrhea. •

He said he was running off all night.

One of the children was running off and had to stay home from school.

3. [for a fluid] to drain away from a flat area. •

By noon, all the rainwater had run off the playground.

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{v. phr.} 1. To produce with a printing press or duplicating machine. * /The print shop ran off a thousand copies of the newspaper./ 2. To drive away. * /The boys saw a dog digging in mother's flower bed, and they ran him off./ * /When the salesman tried to cheat the farmer, the farmer ran him off the farm with a shotgun./ 3. See: RUN AWAY.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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