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单词 run (or make) rings round (or around) someone
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run (or make) rings round (or around) someone

informal Outclass or outwit someone very easily: I had to be very firm with her, or she’d have run rings around me...
  • Huntley replied: ‘I wouldn't say I was running rings round them.’
  • She looked like she was running rings round him in there.
  • We have got to do more because the criminals are running rings around us.

Synonyms

surpass, outshine, outclass, overshadow, eclipse, exceed, excel, transcend, cap, top, outstrip, outdo, put to shame, make look pale by comparison, put in the shade, be better than, beat, outplay, outperform, upstage, dwarf
informal be head and shoulders above, be a cut above, leave standing
archaic outrival, outvie
See parent entry: ring
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