Line
Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.
Run of
Both terms in one sentence
- Edd both fourth walls and lampshades it at the end of the movie with his line about how it's only taken them the entire run of the series, four specials, and said movie to finally be accepted.
Source: Status Quo Is God -
Despite her own opinion of the line, Ashley uses it when asking Shepard about giving aliens free run of the Normandy (although she *is* interested in Shep's response).
Source: With Due Respect -
In the entire run of the show, in fact, only three police officers are shot in the line of duty, two of whom survive; the third is an undercover cop who's mistakenly killed by Prez.
Source: Plot Armor
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