Er ... I think you may mean BEATING AROUND THE BUSH. See the link below.
Think about it for a minute and you can figure it out. What would it mean if you were up? Out of bed and feeling fine? What would it mean if you were about? About town, traveling around? The saying just means you're awake and moving around!
After being around some of his hispanic friends, he learned some idiomatic's of spanish.
It comes from when automobiles had analog speedometers. You "buried the needle" when you drove so fast the indicator was up against the stop at the end and couldn't go any farther around.
a prefix meaning “about” or “around”
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Baggage figuratively means whatever emotional load you are "carrying" around with you from the past.
Quit horsing around is an idiomatic expression. It begins with the letter Q.
"What comes around, goes around" has built, as well as destroyed, many a business.
A vegetable is a plant, so if you are "vegetating," you are just sitting around like a plant.
Beat around the bush means to discuss something without coming to a point. Ex: Quit beating around the bush and just answer the question!
'As the crow flies' means going straight from one place to another (usually some distance away) instead of following paths or roads which usually wiggle around a bit. It is the shortest distance between two points.
Think about it for a minute and you can figure it out. What would it mean if you were up? Out of bed and feeling fine? What would it mean if you were about? About town, traveling around? The saying just means you're awake and moving around!
Nothing - however, keeping a person in the dark means to withhold information from them so that they are unaware of the truth, as if they are stumbling around in the darkness trying to find it.
After being around some of his hispanic friends, he learned some idiomatic's of spanish.
It is an idiomatic expression for "crazy" or of unsound mind. To have bats in the belfry means to suffer from delusions; to be insane. A belfry is a clock or bell tower. Belfry in this expression is used to mean the head, as in you have bats flying around in your empty head.
means the people talked alot If your tongue "wags" or flaps up and down, you are talking. This means that people were passing rumors around, talking about something that someone had done.
That is the correct spelling "monkey", for a group of primate species.