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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.
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Example Sentences

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But even with these restrictions in place, tensions continue to run high.

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Acknowledging the policy as an area "where feelings run high", Phillipson said that some of the conversations around it have been "scaremongering".

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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.

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Passions always run high in Solheim Cups.

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The thunderous rhetoric, which crowds out introspective soliloquy, moves into Broadway power ballad territory when emotions run high.

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