Citations:run circles around

Variants

 * Dance circles around
 * 2007, John Patrick, Mad About the Boys, page 127:
 * It quickly became abundantly clear to him that he could dance circles around these boys. They looked like clumsy hippos in an old cartoon next to him.


 * Act circles around


 * Program circles around
 * 1977, Ted Nelson, The home computer revolution, page 80:
 * A group at MIT, doing research in LOGO as a tool for teaching programming to children, asserts that in two weeks of instruction, children who were taught LOGO could program circles around children of the same age being taught BASIC for comparison.
 * 1982, Kent L. Gustafson and Jane Bandy Smith, Research for school media specialists, page 7:
 * Today, however, thousands of children can program circles around their amazed parents and teachers.
 * 1998, Charles F. Bowman, Wisdom of the gurus: a vision for object technology, page 226:
 * In my experience, I've encountered perhaps only a couple of dozen or so truly world-class developers who not only were experts in their domain but who could also program circles around their peers.