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Difference between Run someone round and Run someone round in circles

run someone round

1. drive smb. to a place:

  • You have to go into one of Heathrow’s terminals and hire a car, they will run you round to the hire car places.

2. (coll.) perform the duties of a servant for a person:

  • Don’t expect me to run you round for the rest of your life!

run someone round in circles —(also: give someone a run-around) deliberately withhold information, etc. from a person, sending him to other places to get it:

  • I spent a long time speaking to various representatives who just run me round in circles.

See also: go around someone / run circles around someone.