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run with
verb
to associate with habitually
run with the pack
to proceed with or put into action
possible for us to run with this proposal
Idioms and Phrases
Also, run around with . Socialize with; see run around , def. 2.
Take as one's own, adopt; also, carry out enthusiastically. For example, He wanted to run with the idea and go public immediately .
run with the hare, hunt with the hounds . Support two opposing sides at the same time, as in He wants to increase the magazine's circulation along with its price—that's trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds . This expression, alluding to being both hunter and hunted at the same time, dates from the 1400s and was already a proverb in John Heywood's 1546 collection.
Example Sentences
He is one of the few remaining in the current set-up to have shared an England dressing room with Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior and Graeme Swann, run with an iron fist by the formidable Andy Flower.
There is no evidence that Walz has even met Boelter, but this tenuous connection was all the conspiracists needed to run with an elaborate story that the two men are co-conspirators in a plot to kill Republicans.
Because most incinerators run with very little spare capacity, it would mean sending Scotland's excess waste to be landfilled in England.
She’s run with the role, both with the professed hopes of educating women on their health, but also with business prospects.
Underlining her position as title favourite, Sabalenka ended four-time champion Iga Swiatek's 26-match run with an impressive three-set victory.
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