run into a stone wall
Also, run into a brick wall. Encounter an insurmountable barrier to progress, as in We tried to get faster approval from the town and ran into a stone wall, or For Allan, learning a foreign language amounted to running into a brick wall.
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run in place,
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run interference,
run into,
run into a stone wall,
run into the ground,
run its course,
run like clockwork,
run of luck,
run of the mill