run a temperature

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To have afever.My child'srunning ahightemperature.1955,Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, inLolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958,→OCLC, part 2,page200:At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.

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