run the table

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run the table (third-person singular simple present runs the table, present participle running the table, simple past ran the table, past participle run the table)

  1. (snooker, pool) To succeed in potting all of one's balls in a single turn.
  2. (figurative, by extension) To decisively and expeditiously accomplish something.