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means A maneuver that achieves a goal by circumventing an obstacle, rule, or opponent rather than confronting it directly.

from Straight out of American football, where an end run is a play in which the ball carrier runs wide around the defensive end instead of smashing through the middle of the line. By the early-to-mid 1900s, sportswriters and politicians had already carried the phrase off the field, using it for any clever detour around a rule, a committee, or an inconvenient person standing in the way.