{"id":14569,"date":"2017-09-30T12:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14569"},"modified":"2017-09-30T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T11:05:49","slug":"running-like-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14569","title":{"rendered":"Running like a …?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you see or heard the phrase “running like a”, what would you expect to the next word to be?<\/p>\n

If you’re from the UK you might say “tap” – that’s certainly what I would expect to come next here. <\/p>\n

A tap in this context refers to “A device by which a flow of liquid or gas from a pipe or container can be controlled” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Such devices are commonly known as faucets in the USA [source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n

What about in other English-speaking countries?<\/p>\n

I picked a cold this week, and yesterday my nose was running like a tap, which is why I decided to blog about this expression. I wondered if people talk about things ‘running like a faucet’ in the USA, and if not, what expression they use.<\/p>\n

If you Google “running like a”, the top results (at the time of writing) are “running like a Kenyan on speed”, “running like a girl” and “running like a dog”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you see or heard the phrase “running like a”, what would you expect to the next word to be? If you’re from the UK you might say “tap” – that’s certainly what I would expect to come next here. A tap in this context refers to “A device by which a flow of liquid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}