RUN AWAY WITH (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING)


Meaning of RUN AWAY WITH (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) in English

run away with somebody/something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ run )

1 . to secretly go away with someone in order to marry them or live with them – usually used to show disapproval:

His wife has run away with another man.

2 . run away with you if your feelings, ideas etc run away with you, they start to control how you behave:

Don’t let your imagination run away with you!

3 . your tongue runs away with you if your tongue runs away with you, you say something that you did not intend to say

4 . run away with the idea/impression (that) spoken to think that something is true when it is not:

Don’t run away with the impression that he doesn’t care.

5 . informal to win a competition or sports game very easily:

The Reds ran away with the championship.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.