around (someone or something)
around (someone or something)
1. Encircling someone or something. You guys don't all need to stand around me—back up!
2. Close to a particular person, place, or thing. I haven't lived around here for very long, so I don't know where any of the good restaurants are.
See also: around
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*around someone or something
1. enclosing someone or something. (*Typically: be ~; go ~; circle ~.) The white picket fence is around the house and the yard. Jimmy was crying loudly. A ring of children circled around him, singing "Happy Birthday."
2. near someone or something in this vicinity. (*Typically: be ~; hang ~; live ~.) How long have you been around here? I don't like people like that hanging around me.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
around
/round the clock Throughout the entire 24 hours of the day; continuously.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
- around
- (one) hasn't lived (until)
- you haven't lived
- be up to (something)
- a crack at (someone or something)
- become reconciled with (someone or something)
- all the thing
- (as) close as two coats of paint
- drop someone or something like a hot potato
- drop something like a hot potato