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English
Etymology
A pun on two senses of run: to run for election and to travel quickly on foot.
Verb
run for the exercise (third-person singular simple present runs for the exercise, present participle running for the exercise, simple past ran for the exercise, past participle run for the exercise)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, exercise.
- (simile, US, colloquial, politics) To run for political office with little chance of success.
- 1959, Candidates 1960 "xxx", Nelson. A Rockefeller, page 53
- f Rockefeller wanted to run for the exercise, reasoned, let him kill himself off and clear the way for a more regular Republican in the next election.
1991, The Hotline, volume 4, numbers 127-148, page 3:BENTSEN: SAYS HE WON'T RUN "FOR THE EXERCISE"
"Asked about the 1992 presidential race, Bentsen said he would not run as a sacrificial lamb so that the [Dems] would have a credible candidate and avoid a humiliating defeat"
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