clatter around

clatter around

1. To make loud rattling noise or disturbing commotion while moving around in a space or container. What on earth is clattering around in my bag? Quit clattering around in here—the baby is napping! Hold that container still so those marbles don't clatter around.
2. To cause something to make a loud, disruptive rattling sound. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "clatter" and "around." Please try not to clatter the plates and glasses around so much when you're clearing people's tables, OK?
See also: around
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

clatter around

 and clatter something around
to move around among things, making noise. Stop clattering around! It's late. I wish you would not clatter those dishes around.
See also: around
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • find way around
  • around (one's) ears
  • be up and around
  • bomb around
  • go around and around
  • gaze around
  • gaze around at (someone or something)
  • feel around (for someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
All the wonders of his individual shots would have been inconsequential had wickets continued to clatter around him.
But, as those three continue to clatter around the big top, the wheels of their cars falling off as they hurl custard pies at the front-runner, who knows what will happen?
Rather than clatter around the battlefield and hope they were lighting the right person, the knights decided to create a system of identification.
WHY GO?: Seafood at Fisherman's Wharf, a boat trip around Alcatraz, a clatter around the steep streets by cable car.
The blinds fit right into the frame of the doors, so they don't clatter around every time you want to pop out to the garden.
She said: "It means I can clatter around in the kitchen and Brian can be in the living room and not be disturbed.
The famous "El" trains - grubby and haphazard in their time-keeping - clatter around elevated tracks above the streets casting a gloomy shadow, but getting around is easy and much more pleasant on foot.