run circles around

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English

Alternative forms

run circles round

Verb

run circles around

To outperform by a great margin.
You may think you're a good seller Carla, but Rickey will run circles around you any day!

Usage notes

This phrase is the prototype for many variants using verbs other than "run". In some cases the resulting expressions seem strained because the literal sense of "circles" clashes with the nature of the verb. See Citations:run circles around#Variants.

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