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2021-08-20 03:08
Run (oneself or something) into the ground phrase
To work with an extreme effort that you end up feeling weary; to make someone work so hard that they end up feeling weary.
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As a team leader, I divided the work equally between members to avoid the situation in which one has to run himself into the ground while others have little work to do.
If you procrastinate until the last day, you will run yourself into the ground on that final day.
The kids are running me into the ground. - I wish they would go back to school tomorrow.
To use something too much or without maintaining it properly, such that causes it to lose functionality or break.
I don't think I ran my phone into the ground, but instead, I believe it is a phone of poor quality.
What! You haven't got your oil changed for years! You've been running your motorbike into the ground.
To keep talking about a topic or dealing with an issue that is not relevant or useful anymore.
What a purposeless discussion! They're running the issue into the ground.
I've had enough of this discussion! From an environmental issue, you guys are running it into the ground.
1. To overuse or monopolize a shared joint or marijuana cigarette.
2. To have a monopoly on or excessive usage of something.
3. To delay something.
4. To play a tough and masculine character like Humphrey Bogart.
The verb "run" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase used in the meaning 2 dates from the early 1800s.
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