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run
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explanation : This term comes from American
football. In football, it refers to a play when the team player
carrying the ball tries to run around the offensive end. In everyday
English it refers to any attempt to evade a barrier.
e.g.
The reporters asked the Senator tons of questions about his private life,
but he did an end run around them and just talked about the tax cut. |