run someone off their feet

English

Verb

run someone off their feet (third-person singular simple present runs someone off their feet, present participle running someone off their feet, simple past ran someone off their feet, past participle run someone off their feet)

  1. (idiomatic) To cause someone to become very busy, especially to an exhausting degree; to make someone work very hard and very quickly.
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