on the run

Idioms  

1. In rapid retreat; also, attempting to escape from pursuers. For example, The guerrillas were on the run after the ambush , or The burglars were on the run from the police . [Early 1800s]

2. Hurrying from place to place, as in The company officers were always on the run from New York to Los Angeles and back . [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

“I had to look inside myself, look at my world and find something that wasn’t the Beatles,” he says in “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” a new documentary directed by Morgan Neville.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” revisits this period when the former Beatle’s music was often dismissed and he was cast as a villain who drove the final nail into his old group’s coffin.

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“I was getting slagged off by everyone, and that does make you question if you’ve still got it,” the star says in the book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” an oral history which expands on Neville’s documentary interviews.

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They found it during recording sessions for the album “Band on the Run,” the melody-drunk highlight of McCartney’s 1970s discography.

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“Band on the Run” was “about 4,000% better than anything that anybody at the time considered McCartney capable of producing,” Charles Shaar Murray wrote in NME.

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