run into the ground
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Former Arsenal and France forward Thierry Henry and ex-Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher have expressed the view, external that modern-day players are being "being treated like cattle" and "run into the ground".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
But as the Framers could have warned you, a nation that was dreamed up chiefly by lawyers was almost overdetermined to be run into the ground by them one day.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023
I wanted to quit the show before it got really bad and run into the ground.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Let’s see if you can last long enough to salvage Jerry Buss’ legacy, which his children have now completely run into the ground.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2022
In the seventeenth century, the art had run its course, and gave place to a taste for cameos, which in its turn was run into the ground.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs
