run rings around
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"I kept having DOJ run rings around me. Right now, as we speak, we have our team of attorneys going through that document in great detail."
From Fox News • Dec. 9, 2019
I also discovered that people with thick Southern accents could run rings around me in chemistry class.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2019
In Klagenfurt he was battered and kicked and bumped by Torsten Frings, Michael Ballack and Bastian Schweinsteiger, but bounced up to elude and bewitch and generally run rings around Germany’s midfield.
From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2018
He is, however, no match for folks who have run rings around his ramshackle campaign in Colorado Springs and Casper, Wyo.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2016
Garbage, I told them, biologically I’m twenty-two, I could run rings around you any day.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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