put sth about/around
UK informal— phrasal verb with put uk/pʊt/us/pʊt/verb present participle putting, past tense and past participle put
to tell a lot of people something that is not true:
[ + that ] I'd like to know who put the rumour around that I'm pregnant.
Someone's been putting it about that Dan is leaving.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-factual
- post-truth
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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