run around | Idiomator

Meaning: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seerun,‎around.The childrenran aroundin the playground.; (idiomatic,intransitive)To be very busy doing many different things.I don't want torun aroundall week getting everything ready for the holidays.; (idiomatic,intransitive)To go from place to place.1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the talerunning roundthat a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”; (rail transport,of a locomotive)To move from one end of theconsistto the other, so as to pull the train in the opposite direction.; (slang)Tocheat; to be unfaithful to a romantic partner.; (tennis,of a forehand or a backhand)To change one's position on the court to hit aforehandrather than abackhand, or vice versa.2006, Greg Moran,Tennis Beyond Big Shots,→ISBN,page71:He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he couldrun aroundhis backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.

Examples:

EN: "The devil believe you, that such a strapping fellow could let himself be run around by a girl.
ES: "Que el diablo le crea, que un tipo tan fuerte se deje atropellar por una chica así. "
EN: And you run around with a bologna like that simp.
ES: Y tú andas por ahí con un payaso como ese.
EN: I don't see how you can run around with a jane like Trixie when you've got a wife like that.
ES: No entiendo cómo puedes andar con una fulana como Trixie... cuando tienes una esposa así.
EN: You know, Roddy, I'm not so sure that I'd like to run around with the old crowd again.
ES: Sabes, Roddy, no es que tenga muchas ganas de volver a verles.
EN: You can't run around with the right crowd on forty-five a week
ES: Uno no puede recorrer el camino correcto con cuarenta y cinco a la semana.
EN: Now then, if we run around together for several months, the usual thing... you'd find out that I don't like carrots...
ES: Si saliéramos juntos durante varios meses, según la costumbre, averiguaría que a mí no me gustan las zanahorias...
EN: We got a lot of centipedes down here, and they run around the floor, and they'll bite you. And the hens, they eat them up, see?
ES: Infestada de gusanos que corretean y muerden, que el pollo se comerá.
EN: You mean, to run around the decks like we're scared, sir? Frightened?
ES: ¿Que corramos por las cubiertas como si tuviéramos miedo, señor?
EN: You'll never have to run around in these rag clothes anymore.
ES: nunca tendrás que correr de un lado a otro dentro de esos harapos nunca más.
EN: You can't run around a public hallway in nothing but a towel.
ES: No puede correr en un pasillo público... en nada excepto una toalla.
EN: Well why don't you run around the park, you'll get all the perspiration that you need.
ES: ¿por qué no te das un paseo por el parque? Obtendrás toda la transpiración que necesitas.
EN: He'll run around the room.
ES: Correrá alrededor de la habitación.
EN: You think I'd let you run around alone at night.
ES: No iba a dejarte andar por ahí sola de noche.
EN: And you didn't run around in tights.
ES: Y tú no ibas en mallas.
EN: - Mm-hmm. - Oh, all that girl does is run around.
ES: Ella sólo va de aquí para allá.

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