ask around
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[edit]ask around (third-person singular simple present asks around, present participle asking around, simple past and past participle asked around)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To enquire of different people about something.
- I don't know the answer to that, but maybe someone else does – I'll ask around.
- 1986 June, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, “GoB Criteria”, in The Mad 3 Party[1], number 12, page 18:
- So a concom has to look twice, ask around, and gather information judiciously.
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