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kid around
Idioms and Phrases
Engage in good-humored fooling, joking, or teasing. For example, He's always kidding around with the other boys . [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Had armed men followed this kid around?
Danvers enjoys pushing the kid around as she molds him into a – you can say it out loud– true detective.
Certain parents didn’t think they could trust any other kid around their little prince or princess.
He is not the soul of patience — who could be, with such a tetchy grown kid around the house? — but he is not going anywhere.
Green said he still carries that kid around with him — the boy in cubicle who guided his way through a recent trilogy of updated “Halloween†movies that surprised fans and box-office expectations alike.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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