float around
informal UK also float about— phrasal verb with float uk/fləʊt/us/floʊt/verb
(OBJECT)
You say that an object is floating around when you think it is not far away but you cannot see exactly where:
I can't find my purse, but it must be floating around here somewhere.
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Closeness in distance and time
- a few/couple of steps idiom
- a hair's breadth idiom
- a stone's throw idiom
- ace
- anywhere
- anywhere near idiom
- eyeball to eyeball idiom
- face-to-face
- hand to hand idiom
- hard by
- here
- proximity
- roof
- round the corner idiom
- shadow
- shout
- step
- stick together
- towards
- under the same roof idiom
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(IDEA)
If an idea or story floats around, it is discussed or repeated by a lot of people:
rumours floating around
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Debate & discussion
- arena
- compare
- conciliate
- dialectic
- fly
- fly around
- get down to business idiom
- give and take
- negotiable
- negotiate
- parley
- powwow
- reason with sb
- reasoning
- sophistry
- speak
- talk sth out
- talk sth over
- toss
- weigh in
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