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Meaning of run rings around someone in English

run rings around someone

idiom (UK also run rings round someone)
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If someone runs rings around you, they are very much better, faster, or more successful at something than you are:
Our girls' hockey team have run rings around all their opponents this year.
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(Definition of run rings around someone from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
 

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