run with
English
Verb
run with
- (idiomatic) To follow something through to completion or realization.
- 2006, David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland, Project management: strategic design and implementation, p.83:
- 3M's culture and its organizational structure are all directed to encouraging its people to take an idea and run with it.
- 2006, David I. Cleland, Lewis R. Ireland, Project management: strategic design and implementation, p.83:
- To be a member of (a gang or hooligan firm).
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 2011, Carl L. Adams, Wanted: Lost Souls, p.59:
- For about three years, I ran with several different gangs.
- 2012, John O'Kane, Celtic Soccer Crew
- Some of these wannabe hooligans ran with the Celtic Soccer Crew for a number of years without ever being arrested or suffering as much as a broken nail.
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