run out

run out idiom
  1. Become used up or exhausted, as in Our supplies have run out. [Late 1600s]
  2. Compel to leave; see run off, def. 5.
  3. Become void, expire, as in Our renter's insurance ran out last month. [c. 1300] Also see run out of; run out on.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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