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start a hare running

start a hare running is the alternative form of start a hare.

Meaning of start a hare

Verb

start a hare (third-person singular simple present starts a hare, present participle starting a hare, simple past and past participle started a hare)

  1. (UK, dated) To introduce a conversational topic.

Forms of start a hare running

third-person singular presentstarts a hare running
present participlestarting a hare running
past participlestarted a hare running
paststarted a hare running

Questions about start a hare running

What is start a hare running the alternative form of?
Start a hare running is the alternative form of start a hare.

Words near start a hare running in the dictionary

  1. starstuff
  2. start
  3. start a family
  4. start a fresh hare
  5. start a hare
  6. start a hare running
  7. start afresh
  8. start and park
  9. start back
  10. start back in
  11. start back on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: start a hare running (page history and authors); start a hare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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