run with the pack

“You can’t lead if you run with the pack,” she said.

It would connote a certain offbeat, renegade sensibility for a theater that didn’t intend to run with the pack.

Even Trump skeptic and beloved Beltway conservative Hugh Hewitt has now decided  to run with the pack.

Gradually he circled faster, pretending to run with the pack in pursuit of a wounded moose.

It’s not that Cruise’s star has dimmed so much that the kind of films that once made him a star became an endangered species and that he decided to run with the pack in an effort to keep his momentum rather than use his star power to make more adult-skewing movies.