if feelings, ideas etc run away with someone, they make someone say or do something stupid
to believe that something is true when it is not
to secretly leave a place with someone so that you can live together
to steal something, or to borrow something without asking
to win a competition, game, or prize very easily
Brazil were running away with the game in the first half.
But she mustn't let her feelings, her hopes, run away with her good judgement.
Has it occurred to you that you're letting your prejudices run away with you?
I didn't let them run away with the idea that he was the only recording star in the family.
I wouldn’t want him to run away with the impression that I don’t care.
She ran away with Steven when she was only sixteen.
She was letting her imagination run away with her.
Until she had run away with Tarja, R'shiel had been training for the Sisterhood.
runs away with
running away with
ran away with
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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