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Idioms and Phrases

Also, run a temperature . Suffer from a body temperature higher than normal, as in She was running a fever so I kept her home from school . These idioms use run in the sense of “cause to move,” in this case upward. [Early 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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