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run someone off their feet

run someone off their feet verb: to cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly.

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.

Forms of run someone off their feet

third-person singular presentruns someone off their feet
present participlerunning someone off their feet
pastran someone off their feet
past participlerun someone off their feet

Questions about run someone off their feet

What does run someone off their feet mean?
Run someone off their feet means to cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly.
What part of speech is run someone off their feet?
Run someone off their feet is a verb.
What is the past tense of run someone off their feet?
The past tense of run someone off their feet is ran someone off their feet.

Words near run someone off their feet in the dictionary

  1. run scared
  2. run sheep run
  3. run sheet
  4. run sheets
  5. run short
  6. run someone off their feet
  7. run someone ragged
  8. run someone's file
  9. run something up the flagpole
  10. run tee
  11. run tees

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