noise around

noise around

To spread gossip, secrets, or confidential information around to other people. A noun or pronoun can be used between "noise" and "around." I heard Tom and Eliza are getting a divorce! I wouldn't go noising that around to anyone else, though! Surely she isn't so foolish as to noise around confidential business details to her subordinates.
See also: around, noise
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • build around
  • build around (someone or something)
  • flash around
  • blab
  • blab around
  • dog around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • find way around
  • around (one's) ears
References in classic literature
Athos, with his arm passed through that of the son he was about to lose, absorbed in melancholy meditation, was deaf to every noise around him.
Boss Howe said: "He performed well last season under similar scrutiny and there's been a lot of transfer noise around him for some time now.
He added: "The noise around the stadium was brilliant and coming on for my first game with Newcastle's senior team was a brilliant experience."
The caution to members of the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission came as a "bombshell" to some but a minor obstacle to others in the group attempting to evenly distribute nighttime jet noise around the region.
Morgan said that the noise around the team does not affect the side.
"There's always a lot of noise around the England team playing well for a while, but I think we just took it a bit too easy with the bat.
"There's always a lot of noise around the England team playing well for a while, but I think we just took it a bit too easy with the bat.We forgot about the process we go through to put partnerships together, and that put us under pressure at the back end of our innings."
Q: Would construction noise around a community impact your decision to lease at that community?
On Tuesday, DCOP Ampofo-Duku, who confirmed the incident to this paper, explained that while on duty, the attention of the officers was drawn to an unusual noise around their duty post, and when they, together with a military officer, were on their way to find out, an unidentified person shot at the two policemen.
He advises investors ignore the noise around "FAANG," and instead focus on Netflix's core fundamentals, which he says are "quite healthy." Miller is comfortable with his estimates going into Netflix's earnings report and keeps an Outperform rating on the name with a $459 price target.
But he added: "To go out in this way with all this noise around is better than going out second or third or even fourth."
"Around that time, there was quite a bit of noise around the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) governor not endorsing demonetisation.
A number of residents and hospital administrations have approached the police and lodged complaints against motorists driving heavy bikes that produce noise around their homes and health institutes.
"There will be a lot of noise around him and it being his last game, rightly so, but we've got to play 11 Sri Lankan players and the respect has to be there for the whole team.
Spike Aerospace, which hopes to fly a new supersonic airliner prototype by 2023, responded with a news release, saying the jet they are working on will "minimize emissions, maximize fuel efficiency and economy, as well as reduce noise around airport zones," and will meet "stringent requirements" set by both the FAA and ICAO.