Idioms
See runaround in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygive somebody the runaround
- (informal) to treat somebody badly by not telling them the truth, or by not giving them the help or the information they need, and sending them somewhere else
- You know where she is, don’t you, but you’re just giving me the runaround.
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