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单词 run someone/thing close
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run someone/thing close

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Almost defeat a person or team in a contest: the Germans ran Argentina close in the 1986 final...
  • Never has a composer had such an influence on his successors - though Wagner may run him close.
  • Smyth himself challenged Trimble's leadership last year and ran him close enough at 47 percent to 53 percent at the unionist council.
  • The Conservatives won one seat, and the SNP, under John Swinney, ran Labour close in two.
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