runaround
Example Sentences
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But despite loving the petite coupe, she wouldn't recommend it as a daily runaround.
From BBC
Emails to Saks asking about owed payments often went unanswered or were met with a runaround, said Emiliano Shnitzer-Bartocci, vice president of CTE Watch Co., which distributes Timex watches and Ray-Ban sunglasses among other accessories.
At Fir Park, Celtic were given the runaround by Jens Berthel Askou's team in a deserved 2-0 win.
From BBC
She says every effort thereafter to straighten things out met the runaround.
The agencies, he said, gave him the runaround and he couldn’t get anyone to answer his calls — which he said was perplexing, considering the rapid response when he alerted them to infected cattle.
From Los Angeles Times
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