| 单词 | round and about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasround and about round and about adv. = round about adv. (in various senses). ΚΠ 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 98 Set the biggest Bunch of Brockely in the Middle, and the other little Piece[s] round and about, and garnish the Dish round with little Spriggs of Brockely. 1843 tr. F. Bremer President's Daughters 50/1 We selected suitable sticks, which we used as stilts, and on these we went round and about in the court-yard. 1892 All Year Round 28 May 516/2 Let the old and sad send messengers out To search the inlets round and about. 1921 O. M. Salter Martha & Mary iii. 197 Turning herself round and about to view the county of Surrey spread out beneath her. 2008 T. Ólafssen Ibsen's Theatre of Ritualistic Visions iii. 119 It is in the morning of that holy day that Peer finally departs from his custom of going round and about. < as lemmas |
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