run about
verb- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, about.
- To be very busy doing many different things. · I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays.
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He sat on all their laps one after the other, because every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in; and Rikki-tikki’s mother (she used to live in the general’s house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men.
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