Marathon Phrases

Phrases

• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Cut and run
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Dry run
• Eat and run
• Egg and spoon race
• Epic proportions
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Had a good run
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• In the long run
• In the short run
• Let your imagination run riot
• Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Snickers (Snickers advertising slogan)
• On the run
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life

• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Sack race
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Snickers satisfies (Snickers advertising slogan)
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• Take the money and run
• The Acropolis (tourist attraction in Athens Greece)
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Colossus of Rhodes (tourist attraction in Greece)
• The Master Race
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The human race
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• This one will run and run
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• You can run but you can't hide