run away with sb
— phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run
(RIDE)
If an animal or machine that you are riding runs away with you, you lose control of it and it carries you away:
Her horse ran away with her.
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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles
- aquaplaning
- back sth up
- boxed in
- bump start
- bump start
- bus driver
- car seat
- carve
- corner
- dip
- driver
- driving
- foot
- hold the road idiom
- manoeuvring
- motor
- motorist
- pull away
- scorch
- turning circle
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(OF FEELING)
If a feeling or idea runs away with you, you cannot control it and it makes you behave stupidly:
Sometimes my imagination runs away with me and I convince myself that they are having an affair.
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Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inroad
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- thing
- tilt the balance/scales idiom
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- warp
- work against/for sb
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