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get the runaround
Idioms and Phrases
Be treated evasively or misleadingly, especially in response to a request. For example, Every time I ask about next year's plans I get the runaround . The related expression give the runaround means “to treat evasively or misleadingly,” as in He gives her the runaround whenever she asks for time off . [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
“Every day they call to get an update. Every single day they’re calling. And they get the runaround every single day, repeatedly,” she said.
Anger is an understandable response when you get the runaround.
“Every time I call the Department of Education for an update, I get the runaround. No one has answers. The stain of that loan is holding me back.”
Frustrated L.A. taxpayers get the runaround, or no response at all, when they try to get attention for various municipal breakdowns.
I hear frequently from frustrated taxpayers who get the runaround, or no response at all, when they try to get attention for various municipal breakdowns.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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