What does 'Run with the ball' mean?
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If you pick up/take up the ball and run with it, you take over something started by someone else, especially when they were not able to complete it.
- Category: Sport
Idioms similar to 'Run with the ball'
- Take your eye off the ball
- On the ball
- Keep your eye on the ball
- Whole new ball game
- Get the ball rolling
- Play ball
- Ball is in your court
- Curve ball
- Drop the ball
- The ball's in your court
- A lost ball in the high weeds
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