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go around

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.04 sec.
go around someone 
1. Lit. to walk or travel in such a way as to avoid hitting or touching someone. I can't move from this place right now. You'll have to go around me.
2. Idiomatic to avoid dealing with someone. I try to go around Steve. He can be very difficult. We will want to go around the boss. He will say no if asked.
See also: around

go around
to be enough for everyone For women over 40 there simply aren't enough men their own age to go around, she says. She believes there's plenty of hope to go around.
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But you surely don't expect me to go around shooting every slanderer in the Solomons that opens his mouth?
With it I intend to go around the world, to earn my crust of bread and cup of wine.
She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.
 
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