Run Through Meaning

(idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.

Example:   Let me run through today's meeting for those who missed it.
2003, Joe Kraynak, The complete idiot's guide to computer basics, page 145:
  The following steps run you through a typical scanning operation using a flatbed scanner: ...
2009, Jorge S. Olson, Build Your Beverage Empire, page 115:
  ... we'll run you through a very quick and abbreviated process from production through bottling.
  We will run through scene 2 until we get it right.
  I ran through my wages in two days. Now I've got to live on next to nothing till Friday!
To go through hastily.
  to run through a book
  Fear of foreigners runs through that country at all levels of its society.
  Make just one move, and I'll run you through, sir, without hesitation.
1676, Thomas Shadwell, The libertine: a tragedy : acted by His Royal Highness's servants, page 15:
  D. Lop." Offer to flinch, and I'll run you through. Offic.: Take their Swords, or knock 'em down.
Of a waterway, to flow through an area.
The Seine river runs through Paris.
Used other than as an idiom: see run,‎ through.