222 Get the runaround

(PW) be sent from place to place without getting the information needed.

It took me four hours to renew my driver’s license. I was sent to almost every department and seemed to get the runaround.

 

(free)

n run-around

1. Informal deceitful or evasive treatment of a person (esp in the phrase give or get the run-around)

2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing an arrangement of printed matter in which the column width is narrowed to accommodate an illustration

 

(MW)

1: deceptive or delaying action especially in response to a request runaround> 

2: matter typeset in shortened measure to run around something (as a cut)

 

(your) noun

1. Informal a series of evasive excuses, deceptions, delays, etc.: usually in get (or give) the runaround
2. Printing an arrangement of type in shorter lines than the rest of the text, as around an illustration