hover around

hover around (someone or something)

To position oneself near or around someone or something else; to linger near or around someone or something else. If you keep hovering around me like this, I'm going to put you to work setting the table!
See also: around, hover
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hover around (someone or something)

to hang or wait around someone or something. The mugger hovered around the side door to the theater, waiting for a victim. The birds hovered around the bird feeder.
See also: around, hover
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • cluster
  • cluster around
  • cluster around (someone or something)
  • entwine
  • entwine around
  • entwine around (someone or something)
  • carry (someone or something) about
  • carry about
  • carry around
  • forage around for (something)
References in classic literature
Susan had just come in from the kitchen, attended by the odor of delectable dishes which always seemed to hover around her.
It is not--happily for you, perhaps, and I may wish that I could say the same--it is not your character to hover around one flower.
Summary: The maximum temperature during the day is expected to hover around 41 - 46 AC.
Daytime temperatures expected for today in Amman and the northern cities will hover around 33 degrees Celsius, dropping down at night to 21.
As early as October 2018, that rate had shot up to about INR 193, and PS Zachariah, the general manager for Musandam Exchange, says the exchange rate for the rupee will hover around INR 178 for the time being.
Daytime highs will hover around 17-18 degrees Celsius in northern Taiwan, with lows likely to drop to 14-15 degrees at night and the early hours of Monday, the CWB forecast.
So there's no telling how long gas prices in Muncie will hover around the $2.45 mark.
The current account deficit is expected to hover around -8.5% of the GDP in 2016 and -7.5% in 2017 in comparison with -9.4% in 2015.
The mercury level is likely to reach as high as 47C in the Al Khor area and hover around 45C-mark in several other places, including Doha, according to the forecast.
The reduction comes amidst a continuing decline in inflation, which is now projected to hover around an average of 4 percent for fiscal year 2014-2015.
The weather department has forecast the maximum temperature at 27 A C for Monday while the minimum temperature is predicted to hover around 10 A C.
The Ministry of Finance earlier this year predicted that the deficit as a percentage of the GDP will hover around 2.3 percent this year.
The only thing that seems to change is her neckline, but her hemlines hover around 5 to 6ins above the knee.
Summary: Rail cargo transportation continued to hover around previous levels
Summary: Headline inflation would reach about 1% in 2010 and hover around 2% over the next six quarters, Morocco's central bank, Bank al-Maghrib said on Tuesday.