(PW) be sent from place to place without getting the information needed.
It took me four hours to renew my driver’s license. I was sent to almost every department and seemed to get the runaround.
(free)
n run-around
1. Informal deceitful or evasive treatment of a person (esp in the phrase give or get the run-around)
2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing an arrangement of printed matter in which the column width is narrowed to accommodate an illustration
(MW)
1: deceptive or delaying action especially in response to a request
2: matter typeset in shortened measure to run around something (as a cut)
(your) noun
- Informal a series of evasive excuses, deceptions, delays, etc.: usually in get (or give) the runaround
- Printing an arrangement of type in shorter lines than the rest of the text, as around an illustration
