Preposition 'Around' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To around'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Flash around' means...

Dispose, get rid of, ignore because you no longer like something or someone

Show something to make sure people know about it

Summarise

'Buzz around' means...

Move quickly around a place

Play a game to decide who the winner is

Travel abroad, leave a place

'Have around' means...

Areest or take someone to a police station for questioning

Walk around without going anywhere

Entertain someone in your home

'Lie around' means...

Act in a lazy or unproductive way

Move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles

Make a provisional appointment

'Mope around' means...

Move around being miserable

Give someone a name to remember another person

Retreat

'Swan around' means...

Move in a dramatic or affected manner

Read, look at or study carefully

Move quickly to where someone is

'Fiddle around' means...

Make someone enter somewhere quickly

Waste time doing silly things, or unsuccessful things

Put on cosmetics

'Monkey around' means...

Understand something, often after a long time

Not be serious

Start doing something

'Float around' means...

Flatter someone

Become friendly with, ingratiate with

Be somewhere near, though not visible

'Build around' means...

Consider someone or something to be of a certain group, type, etc.

End a relationship

Develop something on the basis of something else

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