| 词汇 | knock around/about |
| 释义 | phraseknock around/about1. knock sb around/about informal to hit or kick someone several times: Her husband was a big man with a bad temper. He used to knock her around.get knocked about There was one boy who was always covered in bruises - he got knocked about at home.2. knock around/about sth • knock around/about informal to spend time somewhere, without doing anything very serious or important: I didn't want to leave the city now. I'd spent enough time knocking about in the country. After three years knocking around at university, Sammy still had no idea about a future career.■ SIMILAR TO: kick around informal3. be knocking around/about informal if something is knocking around, it is in a particular place, but it has been forgotten about, or not used for a long time: I used to play a little violin that I found knocking around in the attic. There seem to be a lot of BMWs knocking around these days. It's surprising how few good acting parts there are knocking around.■ SIMILAR TO: kick around, be kicking around/about informal4. knock sth around/about BrE to kick or hit a ball around, especially in a not very serious way: They didn't look like a team who wanted to win. They were just knocking the ball about.5. knock around/about sth to spend time in a place or travelling around a place, doing whatever you want to do or doing very little: Like Jules, Sarah had knocked around the world a bit and seen a lot of places.■ SIMILAR TO: kick around informal, bum around informal |
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