mettere in giro

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to put in turn”.

Verb

méttere in giro (first-person singular present métto in giro, first-person singular past historic mìsi in giro, past participle mésso in giro, auxiliary avére)

1. (idiomatic) to spread or put about (a speculation, story, etc.)
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 26, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Ed è esattamente quello che aveva capito Donald Trump, quando aveva cominciato a mettere in giro la voce che io non ero nato negli Stati Uniti e perciò ero un presidente illegittimo.

     Which is exactly what Donald Trump understood when he started peddling assertions that I had not been born in the United States and was thus an illegitimate president.

     (literally, “And it is exactly what Donald Trump had understood, when he had begun to spread the rumor that I was not born in the United States and that I was therefore an illegitimate president.”)