Idiom Breakdown

run through

COLLOQUIALSLANG English phrasal verbs formed with "through"

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Definition

To summarise briefly.

To inform or educate someone, typically of a new concept or a concept particular to an organization or industry

To repeat something.

To use completely, in a short space of time. Usually money.

To go through hastily.

To pervade, of a quality that is characteristic of a group, organisation, or system.

To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.

To fuck.

To continue past an intersection or a sign that is intended to cause one to stop.

Of a waterway, to flow through an area.

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"Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it."
"The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ..."
"... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling."
"We will run through scene 2 until we get it right."
"Near-synonyms: burn through, get through"
"I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!"
"to run through a book"
"Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society."
"The central concern that runs through The Technology Trap is that, unless we are very careful, our latest technological revolution may well turn out to be a tumultuous rerun of the Industrial Revolution, with dire social and political consequences."
"Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation."
"D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down."
"“There's a white girl, Betty Anderson, down on Cricket Hill Lane parked under them mulberry trees across from the old Carter place getting run through by a colored boy in a bright red Plymouth Fury. You might wanna get out there before Big Jim Anderson find^([sic]) himself with a half-breed grandchild,” […]"
"You just ran through a stop sign."
"The Seine river runs through Paris."

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