run across sb
— Phrasal Verb with run /rʌn/ verb (running, ran, run)Definition
› to meet someone without planning to: After a couple of hours, I finally ran across someone who could help me.
(Definition of run across sb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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