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run off one's feet — Exhausted by overwork • • • Main Entry: ↑run … Useful english dictionary
be run off one's feet — ► be run off one s feet be extremely busy. Main Entry: ↑run … English terms dictionary
be run off one's feet — see foot … Useful english dictionary
run — ► VERB (running; past ran; past part. run) 1) move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time. 2) move about in a hurried and hectic way. 3) pass or cause to pass: Helen ran her fingers through her … English terms dictionary
run — v. & n. v. (running; past ran; past part. run) 1 intr. go with quick steps on alternate feet, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time. 2 intr. flee, abscond. 3 intr. go or travel hurriedly, briefly, etc. 4 intr. a advance by… … Useful english dictionary
run — verb (runs, running, ran ran; past participle run) 1》 move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all feet on the ground at the same time. ↘enter or be entered in a race. ↘(of hounds) chase or hunt their quarry. ↘(of a… … English new terms dictionary
be run off your feet — be run/rushed off (your) feet to have to work very hard or very fast. There s only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet. We weren t exactly rushed off our feet there was only one visitor… … New idioms dictionary
be run off feet — be run/rushed off (your) feet to have to work very hard or very fast. There s only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet. We weren t exactly rushed off our feet there was only one visitor… … New idioms dictionary
run — [run] vi. ran or Dial. run, run, running [altered (with vowel prob. infl. by pp.) < ME rinnen, rennen < ON & OE: ON rinna, to flow, run, renna, to cause to run (< Gmc * rannjan); OE rinnan, iornan: both < Gmc * renwo < IE base * er … English World dictionary
up to one's eyes — (informal) VERY BUSY, fully occupied; overloaded, overburdened, overworked, under pressure, hard pressed, rushed/run off one s feet; informal pushed, up against it. → eye … Useful english dictionary
