RUN TO EARTH Definition & Meaning

run to earth

Also, run to ground. Track down, find, as in Somehow we have to run those relatives of hers to earth, or It won't be easy, but I'm sure we can run that jewelry to ground. This expression comes from hunting, where hounds run their quarry to the earth or ground, that is, to their lair. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s.

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“I would have stood my ground when the chance was offered. Now we have let ourselves be run to earth like foxes.”

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A fox had been run to earth, and "a dog, which the Prince loved," followed it.

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I want nothing better than to see Amos run to earth; for I have not forgotten the voyage of the Mary Greenfield, when mainly through him I was cast into irons.

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They are run to earth, Amos, 'tis true, got away like foxes.

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"Run to earth, my lad!" he cried boisterously.

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run to run to form

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