run a mile

Meaning

1. run a mile (from sb / sth)

   to show that you are very frightened of doing sth

In the movies · 9

• Feel free to run a mile now.Last Night in Soho2021
• Balls! I'll swallow it and run a mile.Withnail & I1987
• Can seemingly run for miles. Wait up.Searching2018
• Hansgen is taking a run at Miles into turn one.Ford v Ferrari2019
• Instead, I would run 10 miles every morning in a desperate...The End of the Tour2015
• Our family doesn't run from things, Miles.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse2018
• Go and run yourself a million miles.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
• They run for six miles before we got 'em headed.Red River1948

Learn it in full scenes

• The End of the Tour2015
  • Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
  • Dave Wallace Doesn't Drink
  • Wallace and Lipsky First Meeting
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
  • Walter Calls eHarmony for Help
  • The Office Learns It's Acquired
  • Walter and Cheryl Meet at the Office

From the same entry

• be miles away
• go the extra mile
• miles from anywhere
• see, spot, tell, smell, a mile off
• stand out a mile
• give an inch
• a miss is as good as a mile