run off
run off {v. phr.}
1. To produce with a printing press or duplicating machine.
The print shop ran off a thousand copies of the newspaper.
2. To drive away.
The boys saw a dog digging in mother's flower bed, and they ran him off.
When the salesman tried to cheat the farmer, the farmer ran him off the farm with a shotgun.
3. See: RUN AWAY.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
