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0 Absolutely no idea. What is the context? 0-

1b01i00a 02i02b00distant runner 01b01i00to a T02i02b00 or distant runner 01b01i00with a capital D02i02b00.02br
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00I have not yet heard of up to the D0-

0 Googling the phrase it turns out that it's a quote from some "Jack Black", a member of a band called "Tenacious D". 02br
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00For me it's interesting the idiom "a distant runner to": it seems to mean "someone that follows from a long distance". I would have said something like "a long distance follower", but I don't seem to be right. Is "distant runner" the most common e

0Ahh I see now, thanks for finding the context.02br
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00a runner-up - a person/thing/organisation that comes second in a competition. A distant runner-up would be one who was a lot worse than the winner. Imagine a race - the person coming second does so half an hour after the winner. They are a distant runner-up. (see the winner crossing the line and who is that in the dis

0It's a bit weirdly punctuated, but it looks as if someone is trying to suggest that the band The D (of whom I have never heard) is so magnificent that they would be better than a band made up of classical musical geniuses.0-

0 That sounds like a typically wild thing Jack Black would say! 0-

0Especially since Bach was quite dead at a ripe old age before Beethoven was even born. 05002br
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0 ...and not one of the composers could even remotely be described as a team player. Can you 01i00imagine02i00 the ego clash? 0-