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What (who) is runaround - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
The Runaround; Run-around; Run around (disambiguation); Run Around; Runaround; Run-Around; The Runaround (film)
runaround
also run-around
If someone gives you the runaround, they deliberately do not give you all the information or help that you want, and send you to another person or place to get it. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE: V inflects
runaround
n. (colloq.)
delaying action
to give smb. the runaround
runaround
¦ noun informal
1. (the runaround) deceitful or evasive treatment.
2. a runabout.
Examples of use of runaround
1. "Runaround, runaround, runaround." Nostrand never did get answers about whether the money was stolen or lost to bad accounting.
2. Anytime you have to call them, it‘s a runaround."
3. Muslims complain that they get a continual runaround from U.S. agencies.
4. They give patients the "runaround," deny care, "slow–walk" the payment of bills, she declared.
5. But 105 years later, Britain‘s oldest driver says she would not be without her little runaround.