end run
Football.Also called end sweep, sweep. a running play in which the ball-carrier attempts to outflank the defensive end.
Informal.
an evasive or diversionary maneuver.
an attempt to surmount a difficulty without confronting it directly.
Origin of end run
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How to use end run in a sentence
But just think how memorable it would have been had you made an actual end-run on Tuesday night.
The State of the Union Should Be More Like the Super Bowl | Kevin Bleyer | February 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy bringing everything up, right now, Kerry does an end run around that tradition, while also deftly avoiding any specifics.
It should be clear to anyone that Holder has run an end run around the Espionage Act by his actions.
Pentagon Papers Lawyer James Goodale: It’s Time for Eric Holder to Resign | James C. Goodale | May 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the very political forces that you are trying to end run would rise up and obstruct at every turn.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns? | Megan McArdle | December 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut as I wrote last week, you cannot use semantic games to do an end run around an enumerated constitutional right.
Should People Be Forced to Buy Liability Insurance for their Guns? | Megan McArdle | December 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
To conclude, the short question will be, Whether you will join with those who must in the end run the same fate with you?
Political Pamphlets | George SaintsburyThe lowest range of arches opening from the Grinfield-street end run to the northward.
Recollections of Old Liverpool | A NonagenarianWisdom and power and means directed to an end run all through the scheme of Nature.
The Stark Munro Letters | J. Stark MunroClaflin got another first down by two plunges at the right of the opponent's line and a wide end-run.
Left Guard Gilbert | Ralph Henry BarbourAn end run was blocked, a third forward pass was intercepted.
Red Dynamite | Roy J. Snell
Other Idioms and Phrases with end run
Evasive action, as in The new department head was making an end run around the old hands who opposed her appointment. This term comes from American football, where it denotes an offensive play in which the ball carrier runs around one end of the opposing team's line. [Mid-1900s]
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