run along

verb

1. (intr, adverb) (often said patronizingly) to go away; leave

Idioms and Phrases

Go away, leave, as in I'll be running along now; I'm already late. This expression is also used as an imperative to tell someone to go away, as in Run along, children, I have work to do. [Early 1800s]

Example Sentences

Their reconstruction reveals a tall crest running along the neck and torso, a row of spikes down the tail, and hooves that enclosed the toes.

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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.

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A walkway runs along the length of it, passing by a giant dinosaur skeleton, a beach volleyball pitch and dozens of Googlers lunching under the hazy November sun.

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We looked at buildings destroyed behind the Yellow Line - a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza.

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"For decades, it's been envisaged trams would one day run along the old railway track bed from Roseburn to Granton," he said.

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Related Words

• disappear 
• escape 
• flee 
• fly 
• go 
• move 
• quit 
• retire 
• start 
• take off 
• withdraw