run riot

run riot
1) разбушеваться, буйствовать; не знать меры, удержу, переступать все границы, выходить из рамок; разыграться (о воображении) [этим. охот. пойти по ложному следу (о собаках)]; см. тж. run wild 6)

Where had he gone? Why had he not let her know? Her scepticism ran riot. (J. Galsworthy, ‘Beyond’, part III, ch. XI) — Куда он уехал? Почему он не дал ей знать? Ее начали одолевать сомнения.

The lightning... ran riot over the surrounding country-side... A shepherd, herding on the Doran hills, was struck instantly dead by a fulgent stroke... (A. J. Cronin, ‘Hatter's Castle’, book I, ch. 11) — Молнии... то и дело вспыхивали над полями за городом и причинили страшные бедствия... На Доранских холмах пастух, пасший стадо, был убит молнией на месте...

...but now her imagination ran riot, and she began to fill the torpid hush of the night with distressing sounds. (A. J. Cronin, ‘Hatter's Castle’, book II, ch. 6) — ...воображение ее разыгралось, и сонное молчание ночи наполнилось таинственными шорохами.

The gala period for new derivative words in English, as for new compounds, was the sixteenth century. In the freedom with which words were borrowed and combined into new compounds, the language for the time ran riot. (G. H. McKnight, ‘English Words and Their Background’, ch. XII) — В XVI в. английский язык обогатился множеством производных и сложных слов. Способность языка к заимствованию слов, которые с легкостью образуют новые сложные слова, казалась безграничной.

2) буйно разрастаться; см. тж. run wild 1)

The weeds run riot in their garden. — Их сад заглушили сорняки.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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