| 词组 | kick around |
| 释义 | kick around 1. kick around/about sth • kick sth around/about informal to discuss an idea with a group of people in an informal way: ▪ We've been kicking around the idea of asking Gretsky to join our team. ▪ The idea of a business merger has been kicked around for more than a year now. 2. be kicking around/ about (sth) informal if something is kicking around a place, it is somewhere in that place but it has been forgotten about, or not used for a long time: ▪ I found a photograph of his last girlfriend kicking about among the clothes on the floor. ▪ That book's been kicking around the house for ages, but now that I want it, it's disappeared! ■ SIMILAR TO: be knocking around informal, be lying around informal 3. kick around/about sth • kick around/about informal to spend time in a place or travelling around a place, doing whatever you want to do or doing very little: ▪ After university, I decided to kick around Europe for the summer. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑bum around informal 4. kick sb around/about usually passive informal to treat someone badly or unfairly, especially by expecting them to do whatever you tell them to do: ▪ She's always being kicked around by him - I don't know why she stays. get kicked around/about ▪ Some of the staff definitely feel that they get kicked around too much. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑shove around, ↑push around |
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