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run over

Verb

Meaning

flow or run over (a limit or brim)

injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle

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Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. Thomas Hobbes

The last drop makes the cup run over. English Proverb

Let God's waters run over God's acres. Dutch Proverb

Quhen the well is full, it will run over. Scottish Proverb

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