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Idioms and Phrases

Be treated evasively or misleadingly, especially in response to a request. For example, Every time I ask about next year's plans I get the runaround . The related expression give the runaround means “to treat evasively or misleadingly,” as in He gives her the runaround whenever she asks for time off . [Early 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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