Citations:run circles around

English citations of run circles around

2007, John Patrick, Mad About the Boys, page 127:
It quickly became abundantly clear to him that he could dance circles around these boys. They looked like clumsy hippos in an old cartoon next to him.

2009 March 17, Roger Friedman, “Julia Roberts' Unwelcome Return”, in FOXNews‎^[1]:
But she's a movie star and can act circles around anyone, and she's going to be a sensation in the papers on the morning of April 20.
2016 December 20, Katie Rife, “Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[2]:
Lawrence can act circles around Pratt, but he’s so darn affable you just don’t care.

1977, Ted Nelson, The home computer revolution, page 80:
A group at MIT, doing research in LOGO as a tool for teaching programming to children, asserts that in two weeks of instruction, children who were taught LOGO could program circles around children of the same age being taught BASIC for comparison.
1982, Kent L. Gustafson and Jane Bandy Smith, Research for school media specialists, page 7:
Today, however, thousands of children can program circles around their amazed parents and teachers.
1998, Charles F. Bowman, Wisdom of the gurus: a vision for object technology, page 226:
In my experience, I've encountered perhaps only a couple of dozen or so truly world-class developers who not only were experts in their domain but who could also program circles around their peers.