lurk around

lurk around

To move or hang about (some place) in a suspicious, sneaking, or slinking manner. I had this horrible feeling someone was lurking around outside our house, so I called the police. This is the second time this month I've seen that guy lurking around—does anyone know who he is?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lurk around

to slink or sneak around somewhere. Who is that guy lurking around the building? Stop lurking around.
See also: around, lurk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • slink around
  • slunk
  • slink
  • slink about
  • go a different way
  • sneak around
  • snuck
  • rat around
  • slink into (some place)
  • before (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Despite the index finishing strong, traders said there are signs that the ghosts of August have started to lurk around the corner.
So, danger continues to lurk around Nissan and the thousands of jobs that depend on the Washington plant and its supply chain.
That's because brainthirsty zombies lurk around every corner.
Being in the public eye for many years, the pair know that photographic evidence of their different style choices lurk around to this day.
Fear and unimaginable horrors lurk around every corner and in every shadow of The Evil Within.
Don't lose your head in the Haunted Castle Hunt, where Royal ghosts lurk around every corner.
Strange shadows lurk around every corner, including a creepy, dead schoolgirl who haunts Julie and a nightmare-inducing clown doll which stalks Lucas.
THERE is a distinct dearth of anything out of the norm during midsummer, although a surprise may just hopefully lurk around the corner.
ACTORS are to lurk around the streets of a Birmingham suburb with swag bags - to warn students of the dangers of being burgled.
So they do not understand the dangers that lurk around them.
I'll be glad when everything gets back to normal as disappointment and frustration lurk around every corner when you go sales shopping.
And it's not just all that extraordinary art--the Piero della Francescas and Fra Angelicos that seem to lurk around every corner.
I am afraid this is the true face of democracy and freedom in this city of culture, where bigots and facists lurk around every corner.
The ferrets live in tunnels abandoned by prairie dogs, Sometimes a mother ferret will distribute her litter of two to three kits among several burrows while she is out hunting--if predators such as badgers or coyotes lurk around one entrance way at least all of her kits are not in danger.
"They lurk around and try to set up their vending to see if we're going to be vigilant."