get about
phrasal verbget about (British English)
(also get around British and North American English)
- to move from place to place or from person to person
- She gets about with the help of a stick.
- News soon got about that he had resigned.
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- (informal) to go to a lot of different places
- Stuart really gets about—last week he was in Dubai and this week he's in Paris.