run to ground

run somebody to ground

(British & Australian)

to find someone after searching for a long time Chinese detectives ran him to ground in a Shanghai night club.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tiffani	TIF-ə-nee	English
Narangerel	-	Mongolian
Delilah	di-LIE-lə (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English
QuyỀN	-	Vietnamese
Conall	-	Irish, Scottish, Irish Mythology
Elanor	-	Literature