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Runaway: Runaway means a person who runs away, an animal out of control, or an event happening too quickly. For example, runaway inflation, runaway bull, or a runaway success
Runner: Runner has many meanings. The two meanings I have encountered is: a person who runs, or a long, narrow rug or strip of carpet in an entrance way where people often tread on. Wait, there’s another one that I know– that’s the phrase “runner up”, meaning a competitor or team taking second place in a contest. The person in the third place is called the second runner up.
Running gag, or running joke: It is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.
bank run: A bank run happens when people lose confidence in the bank and stand in line to withdraw their money in case the bank run out of money.
dry run: a rehearsal before the real performance.
also run: a contestant who does not win.
outrun and overrun: These two words mean two different things. The first one means to go faster or beyond, and the second one means to exceed expected time, cost etc.
rerun: show or perform again
run something to the ground: Pursue a topic or work something until it has been thoroughly exhausted.
run-of-the-mill: lacking unusual or special aspects; ordinary.
salmon run: a migration of salmon up a river from the sea, in order to spawn.
run amok: behave uncontrollably
race to the bottom: It is a social economic phrase about business moving to the place with the lowest cost and with the lowest regulatory standards.
run up a tab: To accumulate a big spending that will have to be paid later.
Haoyan Do 
Nice ones. Now they are all running around in my mind. Haha. Great sharing, Haoyan! 🙂
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Thank you. Yes, running… you just remind me of some other phrases concerning running. LOL.
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“Runway” is another interesting one. In the UK, clothes models parade on a “catwalk” rather than a “runway” as in the US. However I imagine the aviation use of the word is the same in both countries.
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I wonder why it is called runway since nobody actually runs there. I mean all the models are walking on high heels. It is impossible to run on high heels…
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You can have a runaway plane if it overruns the runway
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I heard about incidents when a runaway plane overran a runway and the passengers have to slide down an inflated escape device.
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I haven’t noticed the runaway and runway. LOL. That’s funny.
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Thanks for noticing!
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Thank you. I am really slow in word games…
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Really interesting, especially “race to the bottom”. I hadn’t heard of that before. I know of that strategy but didn’t realise it had a name.
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Yes, it is an interesting term, isn’t it? As if falling is not enough… It has to be a race… LOL.
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Lol that’s the funny part. I guess they get competitive about it.
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Yes, I’ve witnessed people who get competitive about the smallest most insignificant match whatsoever.
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I have an aunt who does that, it’s kind of funny to watch.
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There were once or twice I got really competitive in playing mahjong and poker, but I felt very bad afterwards. Since then, I’ve always tried to keep the game among friends as something for fun only. I know I am a person who can get obsessed easily and I have to be very vigilant that I don’t get into something.
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I’m the same way and that’s why I avoid playing games where I will get competitive. It’s a side of myself I don’t want to put out there.
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Me too. I don’t enjoy myself while doing it. No pleasure. I know some people feel differently. You and I feel the same…
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