run circles around
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run circles around (third-person singular simple present runs circles around, present participle running circles around, simple past ran circles around, past participle run circles around)
To outperform by a great margin.
You may think you're a good seller Carla, but Rickey will run circles around you any day!
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.
Amazon is a Goliath, and in my opinion one of the few stocks that could run circles around Netflix.
Performance monsters as the S9 and S9+ are, Apple's iPhones still run circles around them.
Pretty soon you'll be able to run circles around your controller-centric friends on the Xbox One thanks to keyboard and mouse support.