run into the ground

It’s a winning start, and likely means that the only company being run into the ground is the fictional one at the heart of the Ladder.

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.

I wanted to quit the show before it got really bad and run into the ground.

Cuomo told listeners that “now more than ever before, I’m talking to you as me… these words are only my own. Nobody is telling me to stay on a story even if it has been run into the ground.”

A sure sign that a comic strip has run out of creative or even mildly amusing observations is its return to a recurring theme that other cartoon artists have run into the ground.