get round (someone)
get round
To spread among a number of people, as of news, rumors, etc. When news of this tax scandal gets round, your career in politics will be finished!
See also: get, round
get round (someone)
1. To persuade someone about something or persuade someone to do something, especially through the use of charm, flattery, or cajolery. If we play up the department's excellent productivity for the day, we might be able to get round the boss to let us take the afternoon off. I don't mind if you go for an ice cream, but you'd better get round your father first.
2. To evade or circumvent the authority of someone. We'll have to find a way to get round the accountant if we want this tax scheme to work.
See also: get, round
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- get round
- get round (something)
- get around
- word gets around
- break a story
- break the/a story
- more at 11
- be good news
- estate
- the Fourth Estate