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run high
Idioms and Phrases
Be intense, as in Feelings are running high on the issue of raising taxes . This expression, first recorded in 1711, transfers the strong currents or tides that make for high waves to human concerns.Example Sentences
But even with these restrictions in place, tensions continue to run high.
Acknowledging the policy as an area "where feelings run high", Phillipson said that some of the conversations around it have been "scaremongering".
Though that was a rare instance of disorder, tensions had inevitably run high throughout the campaign - both on Scotland's streets and in the nascent Twitter-sphere.
Passions always run high in Solheim Cups.
The thunderous rhetoric, which crowds out introspective soliloquy, moves into Broadway power ballad territory when emotions run high.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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