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run after
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To pursue; to try very hard to win someone's love and affection; to woo or court persistently. See love for synonyms.QUOTE: Dorothy Parker: ' Never run after a bus or a man, there'll be another one along in a minute.' Rephrased slightly by the Marlboro (Don Johnson) to Harley (Mickey Rourke) in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991): ' My old man used to say, before he left this shitty world, never chase buses or women. You always get left behind.'
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