英和和英

語源

From the phrasal verb run around.

名詞

runaround (複数形 runarounds)

1. An evasive explanation in the form of multiple excuses.

   I called them to find out what had happened to my parcel, but all I got was a runaround.

2. A detour or route that bypasses an obstacle.
3. (printing) A section of type that is narrower than that of the column it is part of; typically next to an illustration.
4. A whitlow running around the fingernail but not affecting the bone.

派生語

• bureaucratic runaround
• get the runaround
• give somebody the runaround

動詞

run around (三人称単数 現在形 runs around, 現在分詞 running around, 過去形 ran around, 過去分詞 run around)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ around.

   The children ran around in the playground.

2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be very busy doing many different things.

   I don't want to run around all week getting everything ready for the holidays.

3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To go from place to place.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”

4. (rail transport, of a locomotive) To move from one end of the consist to the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.
5. (slang) To cheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.
6. (tennis, of a forehand または a backhand) To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.
   • 2006, Greg Moran, Tennis Beyond Big Shots, →ISBN, page 71:

     He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.

同意語

• run about

派生語

名詞

run around (複数形 run arounds)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ around.

   We let the dog off the lead so it could have a run around.

2. Alternative form of runaround.
   • 1893, The New England Medical Gazette - Volume 28, page 183:

     Natrum sulp. is my specific for inflammations of the matrix of the nails or " run arounds."

   • 1914, Mine and Quarry - Volumes 8-11, page 1176:

     The sketch shows the arrangement of run arounds for bringing the loaded trips into the bottom and for returning the empties to the proper quarter of the mine.

   • 1937, United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board, Awards: first division. 1- - Volume 7, page 504:

     The Committee contends : First, that the turn of Brakeuien W. R. Tighe and W. F. Haworth was run around at Baird by the crews of Conductors Schwartz, Russell, Hubbard, and Whaley and thereby lost 200 miles, or four 50-mile run arounds.