📚 verb • entry_id 45723
run after
Meanings (ES + gloss)
perseguir
To follow quickly, often in an effort to catch or catch up with (someone or something).
I saw him run after a gilded butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go again;
That dog will get hurt if he continues to run after cars.
correr tras
To make a determined effort to win someone's affections or to have a sexual relationship with them.
1791, Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, p. 265, […] if a young man is wild, and must run after women and bad company, it i…
She runs after any man in uniform!
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