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run someone ragged 使...疲于奔命

- exhaust someone by making them undertake a lot of physical activity.

For 20 minutes they ran us ragged.

England ran Tunisia ragged in that spell but were punished for missing a host of chances.

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snuff out

- end something
- extinguish a candle or flame

There is concern that overfishing could snuff out some species.

His political career was snuffed out in its prime.

A breeze snuffed out the candle.

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pass someone by

- happen without being noticed or fully experienced by someone

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by.

Messi is trying to do too much and he ends up so frustrated that the game just passed him by.

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pass someone by

- happen without being noticed or fully experienced by someone

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by.

Messi is trying to do too much and he ends up so frustrated that the game just passed him by.

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get acquainted with someone

- If you get or become acquainted with someone that you do not know, you talk to each other or do something together so that you get to know each other. You can also say that two people get or become acquainted. 

An FBI agent walked me in and they let us get acquainted for a while.

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colour drain from someone's face

- used to say that someone became very pale 

The color drained from her face when he told her there had been an accident.

I just felt like my life as I knew it was ended. I felt the colour drain from my face.

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dripping - very wet

dripping wet hair

Under the dripping canopy, a young Karen man holds his breath as he carefully conceals a landmine in the undergrowth beside a jungle track.

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get wind of 听到风声

- begin to suspect that (something) is happening; hear a rumour of

Mortimer got wind of a plot being hatched.

He has driven across town after getting wind of McLean's arrival.

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old school

- noun, used, usually approvingly, to refer to someone or something that is old-fashioned or traditional.

He was one of the old school of English gentlemen.

My adoptive mum is old-school. She has a sharp tongue, a quick wit.

- adjective, having or adhering to old-fashioned values or ways.

The restaurant is an old-school brasserie of the Parisian model.

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blistering - extremely fast, forceful, or impressive.

Burke set a blistering pace.

Mbappe is only 19 years old but he scored two goals and ran with blistering pace from his own half to win a penalty for the opener in France's 4-3 victory over Argentina.