go around
verb- To move or spread from person to person. · The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.
- To visit (a place) or with (somebody). · I'm going around to John's house later.
- To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- To be shared with everyone. · There's plenty of fish to go around.
- To perform a go-around maneuver. · ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around. · Let's make the wheels go around.
From the library
There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy--at least in a poor asylum like ours.
“I’ll have to go around by the road, then,” said Anne, taking up her hat reluctantly.
I won’t be able to go around for six or seven weeks and I’ll miss the new lady teacher.
Come on, Bob; we’ll go around to a place I know of, and have a good long talk about old times.”
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