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Go around   /goʊ ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Go around

verb
1.
Be sufficient.
2.
Become widely known and passed on.  Synonyms: circulate, spread.  "The story went around in the office"
3.
Go around the flank of (an opposing army).  Synonym: outflank.
4.
Turn on or around an axis or a center.  Synonyms: revolve, rotate.  "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"
5.
Avoid something unpleasant or laborious.  Synonyms: bypass, get around, short-circuit.






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"Go around" Quotes from Famous Books



... men grumbling because the food was not enough to go around. The liquor had begun to work in their systems, drinking so lavishly, and without nourishment to absorb its fiery quality. Jack let enough time pass to give this ally full play in disabling the troopers, then taking Barney to the ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... go around by the boundary," Miss Lutworth said when they got through the Wendover gates. "I long to see even the park of that exquisite old lady; it must look quite different to anybody else's, and I feel I want ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn

... Rolling R boys would be telling with pride how they used to know Johnny Jewel, the wonderful birdman that had his picture in all the papers and was getting thousands of dollars for exhibition flights. Tex, Aleck, Bud, Bill—Mary V, too, gol darn her!—would go around bragging just because they used to know him! And right then he'd sure play even for some of the insults they ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... "if you go around contradicting Americans on the subject of Christopher Columbus your business will decrease. As a matter of fact, Christopher wasn't born, he was made, and America made him. He has every right to claim ...
— A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An - American girl in London') • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... out, Bob! You give me a pain! Just because you once put on hobo clothes and went out and knocked about with bums for a year, you think you've a call to go around making yourself a bore ...
— The Pot Boiler • Upton Sinclair


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