run to earth | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Tofindsomeone or something after a long and difficult search.Synonyms:run down,run to groundCoordinate term:run inWe’ve been trying to contact that witness for ten days, but we still haven’trunhimto earth.1968, Georgette Heyer,The Unknown Ajax, page155:He went off to Rye,ranOttershawto earthin the Ship, and asked him what the devil he meant by it.

Examples:

EN: But we're at the mercy of Ryner and his kind till they're run to earth.
ES: Pero estamos a la merced de Ryner y de los suyos.
EN: That's my responsibility, to plug every profit leak, to run to earth every single case of waste and inefficiency in this company.
ES: Es mi responsabilidad evitar cualquier despilfarro y oponerme a cualquier tipo de gasto innecesario o de ineficacia.
EN: I have no intention of being run to earth in a female borstal.
ES: No tengo intención de que me pillen en un reformatorio femenino.
EN: And then I want her previous bosses run to earth and shown the photograph, hmm?
ES: Luego, busquen a sus jefes anteriores y que les enseñan la fotografía.
EN: In the end, he was run to earth by that tiresome woman, Queen Christina of Sweden, who carried him off to Stockholm to give her lessons in the new philosophy.
ES: Al final, fue arrastrado por esa fastidiosa mujer, la Reina Cristina de Suecia, que se lo llevó a Estocolmo para darle lecciones de la nueva filosofía.

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