run afoul of (someone or something) -Idioms

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run afoul of (someone or something)

to get into trouble with someone or something

The young man ran afoul of the law and got into much trouble.

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run after (someone) or (something)

run around (something)

run around in circles

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

run around with (someone)

run away with (someone)

run away with (something)

back to square one

chip off the old block

not set foot (somewhere)

a doubting Thomas

see eye to eye (with someone)

in one's salad days

ill-disposed to (do something)

back up (something) or back (something) up

pour oil on troubled waters

nothing but (something)

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The poet Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822. His body was washed up, half eaten by fish, and cremated on the beach by his friends. One of them cut his heart from the burnt body and gave it to Shelley's wife who kept it all her life. .. More >>

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