run smack into
Example Sentences
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I’d sidled through the “speak-easy,” happened upon the blackjack tables, and even run smack into a male dancer standing atop a saddle swinging 4 feet off the ground.
From Slate • May 30, 2023
That extensive documentation has run smack into a hard reality, however.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2022
Yes, what is “important” — and in pro sports, winning division titles really is a measure that matters — again has run smack into what is merely “interesting,” the off-the-field story lines.
From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2020
But Odum’s $7 billion quest has run smack into opposition.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2015
Pythagoras himself fled for his life, and he might have gotten away had he not run smack into a bean field.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
