The word "run" is anticipated to have approximately 645 different meanings in the next Oxford English Dictionary, set for a 2037 release.

I challenge someone to make a sentence or paragraph with all these.

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    My dad’s sworn for decades that it must be “jack,” but he excludes meanings which require an additional preposition, like make out or stand up.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      22·
      2 months ago

      Just FIY those are called phrasal verbs and they’re probably the second worst thing Europeans invented after capitalism.