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run into a stone wall

Also, run into a brick wall. Encounter an insurmountable barrier to progress, as in We tried to get faster approval from the town and ran into a stone wall, or For Allan, learning a foreign language amounted to running into a brick wall.

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run-in, run in place, run interference, run in the blood, run into, run into a stone wall, run into the ground, run its course, Runjeet Singh, runless, runlet
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