The horses ran in circles around the corral for their daily exercise.
•The children ran in circles around the tree.
2. and run around in circles Fig. to waste one's time in aimless activity. •Stop running in circles and try to organize yourself so that you are more productive.
•I have been running around in circles over this matter for days.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
run rings/circles around — If you show much more skill or ability than your opponent, you run rings (or circles) around them. In a quiz show on TV yesterday, a teenage girl ran rings around the other contestants … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
run around like a chicken with its head cut off — See: RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES … Dictionary of American idioms
run around like a chicken with its head cut off — See: RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES … Dictionary of American idioms
run\ circles\ around — • run circles around • run rings around v. phr. To show that you can do a task much better than; do better than (someone) very easily. In spelling, Ruth could run circles around Barbara any day. Frank ran rings around the other boys on the… … Словарь американских идиом
run around in circles — INFORMAL ► to be very active without achieving any good results: »Peter s been running round in circles since half his department resigned. Main Entry: ↑run … Financial and business terms
run circles around someone — If you can run circles around someone, you are smarter and intellectually quicker than they are … The small dictionary of idiomes
run round in circles — To act in too frenzied a way to achieve anything useful • • • Main Entry: ↑circle * * * run round in ˈcircles idiom (informal) to be busy doing sth without achieving anything important or making progress Main entry: ↑circle … Useful english dictionary
run\ rings\ around — • run circles around • run rings around v. phr. To show that you can do a task much better than; do better than (someone) very easily. In spelling, Ruth could run circles around Barbara any day. Frank ran rings around the other boys on the… … Словарь американских идиом
run circles around you — run faster than you, win easily Billy can run circles around any boy in school. He s very fast … English idioms
Run, Run, Run — Chanson par The Who extrait de l’album A Quick One Pays Angleterre Sortie 3 décembre … Wikipédia en Français
Run — A run consists of a series of bid and offer quotes for different securities or maturities. Dealers give to and ask for runs from each other. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. run run 1 [rʌn] verb ran PASTTENSE [ræn] … Financial and business terms
