"run someone off their feet" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: runs someone off their feet [present, singular, third-person], running someone off their feet [participle, present], ran someone off their feet [past], run someone off their feet [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|run<,,ran,run> someone off their feet}} run someone off their feet (third-person singular simple present runs someone off their feet, present participle running someone off their feet, simple past ran someone off their feet, past participle run someone off their feet)
  1. (idiomatic) To cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-run_someone_off_their_feet-en-verb-~t8Nplyj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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