put sth about/around
informal — phrasal verb with put /pʊt/ verb (present tense putting, past tense and past participle put)Definition
› 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.Lies, lying and hypocrisyDishonest people
(Definition of put sth about/around from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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put sb up phrasal verb
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put sb up to sth phrasal verb
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put sb's nose out of joint idiom
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put sb/sth first idiom
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put sb/sth through their paces idiom
- put sth about/around phrasal verb
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put sth across phrasal verb
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put sth across/over sb phrasal verb
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put sth aside phrasal verb (IGNORE)
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put sth aside phrasal verb (SAVE)
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put sth at sth phrasal verb
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Synonyms and related words:
- artifice noun
- bad faith noun
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard noun
- cobbler noun (NONSENSE)
- fib noun
- fiction noun
- flimflam noun
- forked tongue noun
- half-truth noun
- lie verb (SPEAK FALSELY)
- misinformation noun
- mislead verb
- misrepresent verb
- misrepresentation noun
- myth noun (FALSE IDEA)
- untruth noun
- weasel words noun
- white lie noun
- whopper noun
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