run barefoot through

English

Verb

run barefoot through (third-person singular simple present runs barefoot through, present participle running barefoot through, simple past ran barefoot through, past participle run barefoot through)

1. To explore or experience freely and with enjoyment.
   • 1994, The New Yorker, page 16:

     The impasto surfaces — skittering, superimposed grids and crosshatchings with highly sophisticated interplays of color and rhythm — are so lush and richly textured that you want to run barefoot through them.

   • 1995, A View from the Loft - Volumes 18-19:

     At last I obtained a copy of The Artist's Way and set to --- I almost said work, but thinking better of it, I set to running barefoot through my inner resources.

   • 2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN:

     My thanks to Colonel Tom Anderson, retired, of the Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska State Trooper Museum, for letting me run barefoot through his files and back issues of the Banner, greatly aiding the plot of this novel.

   • 2010, Ivan Rehorek, Rare & Vacant Hour, →ISBN, pages 24–25:

     I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously -- so let's not plan anymore directions but a rip-roaring, sunlit day: just go laughing and free run barefoot through all the dot-points. . . I can just about smell the weekend, gloriously.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run,‎ barefoot,‎ through.