run to earth
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run to earth (third-person singular simple present runs to earth, present participle running to earth, simple past ran to earth, past participle run to earth)
- (idiomatic, transitive) To find someone or something after a long and difficult search.
- Synonyms: run down, run to ground
- Coordinate term: run in
- We’ve been trying to contact that witness for ten days, but we still haven’t run him to earth.
- 1968, Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax, page 155:
- He went off to Rye, ran Ottershaw to earth in the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.