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ran someone off their feet

ran someone off their feet is the simple past of run someone off their feet.

Meaning of run someone off their feet

Verb

run someone off their feet (third-person singular simple present runs someone off their feet, present participle running someone off their feet, simple past ran someone off their feet, past participle run someone off their feet)

  1. (idiomatic) To cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly.

Questions about ran someone off their feet

What is ran someone off their feet the simple past of?
Ran someone off their feet is the simple past of run someone off their feet.

Words near ran someone off their feet in the dictionary

  1. ran rings around
  2. ran riot
  3. ran roughshod over
  4. ran scared
  5. ran short
  6. ran someone off their feet
  7. ran someone ragged
  8. ran someone's file
  9. ran something up the flagpole
  10. ran the clock down
  11. ran the gamut

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