run barefoot through

Definitions

1. 1

   To explore or experience freely and with enjoyment.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

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

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