run on
phrasal verbrun on
- to continue without stopping; to continue longer than is necessary or expected
- The meeting will finish promptly—I don't want it to run on.
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run on something
- [no passive] if your thoughts, a discussion, etc. run on a subject, you think or talk a lot about that subject