单词 | to ask around |
释义 | > as lemmasto ask around to ask around intransitive. To enquire widely about a thing. ΚΠ 1754 Coll. Hymns Children of God in All Ages (Moravian Church) i. 351/1 Say, where's thy hope, thou Sinner, say? Look ev'ry where, and ask around. 1843 Bentley's Misc. 13 492/2 She'd..ask around, Until she found Who took it out. 1895 Amer. Bookmaker Oct. p. xviii/1 (advt.) Ask around, and you'll find out that the very leaders in the printing art value the Wetter Numbering Machine as a necessity to the profit pulling power of their establishments. 1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird vii. 68 Atticus said someone must have lost it, and had we asked around? 2003 S. Mawer Fall (2004) xxii. 366 I asked around, in the local pub, the corner shop, the ARP post, that kind of thing. < as lemmas |
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