Talk:run circles around
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See comments at #X one's Y off. Equinox ◑ 17:34, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- As below, we don't allow "X" to act as a filler in article titles, do we? I sort of think there's some merit in it, but not much. I'm in favour of a delete but it does highlight problems with have with article titles. Mglovesfun 09:20, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- delete in this form. Maybe move to "circles around"? --Diuturno 07:01, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
- Delete Do we need a bin to store these for a time when we get any idea how to handle them? WikiGrammar? A project that could dispense with our almost entire lexical focus could run rings around a dictionary when it came to these. DCDuring TALK 11:07, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Moved to circles around, but could be tweaked. I've seen run circles around and run rings around too. --Jackofclubs 14:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
- Looking at "[Verb] circles around" at COCA, only about half of the usage was figurative. Of the figurative usage more than 80% involved forms of "run". I propose that we put the citations of the other verbs used with "circles around" onto the citations page and/or show the other common verb uses without wikilinks under Related terms and move to run circles around. DCDuring TALK 15:34, 20 June 2009 (UTC)