run into the ground

Significado

1. run sb / sth into the ground

   to make sb work so hard that they are no longer able to work; to use sth so much that it is broken

En las películas · 1

• Altitude. Your strategy is about to run us into the ground.Top Gun: Maverick2022
• Around here, everybody works till they're run into the ground.Water for Elephants2011
• Why in a free country shouldn't he be able to have health insurance and exercise his First Amendment right to run me into the ground?Sicko2007

De la misma entrada

• cut the ground from under feet
• gain up ground
• get off the ground
• give ground
• go to ground
• hold your ground
• on the ground
• run yourself into the ground
• thick on the ground
• keep your ear to the ground
• be on firm ground
• have your feet on the ground