Running on fumes

Verb phrase.
At the end of one's resources or personal energy.

This comes from the condition of a car when it's gas gauge reads "E" or "Empty." In a car on empty, you don't know how much fuel you have left, so you assume your fuel is so low that it has evaporated into fumes.

After that Marathon, I'm so exhausted that I'm running on fumes.

My car's fuel gauge is reading "E"; I'm running on fumes, so I might not make it to the next gas station.

by anonymous December 1, 2023

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Hit and run journalism

When the facts of the story you're reporting on don't fit your version of historiography.

What is hit and run journalism anyways? Is it related to fake news?

by Sexydimma October 9, 2022

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run off and leave him NOT holding the bag

To not only skip out on your partner in crime so dat he gets da blame for your "combined" transgressions, but you also abscond with whatever ill-gotten booty dat said hapless cohort helped you to "acquire"!

In da "Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" tale, da King and da Duke had both secretly planned to bilk da other out of da sack of gold --- i.e., each one of said selfish 'n' shameless shysters possessed da classic "no honor among thieves" mindset, and thus was going to pull da disgraceful "run off and leave him NOT holding the bag" on his unwitting accomplice!

by QuacksO January 18, 2025

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Reunion Run

Going into combat recklessly, knowing full well your likelyness to die is high, hoping to die in combat to be reunited with love ones who have passed on.

Mike's on a Reunion Run.
How can you tell?
He's running directly at the machine gun emplacement.

by mokichi January 17, 2013

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