Run things
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Run things is an antonym for stop.
Both terms in one sentence
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Henry V, where Captain Fluellen can't stop talking about how slipshod the English army is compared to how Pompey the Great would have run things.
Source: Useful Notes / Pompey the Great
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