kick around — ► kick around (or about) 1) lie unwanted or unexploited. 2) treat (someone) roughly or without respect. 3) discuss (an idea) casually or experimentally. Main Entry: ↑kick … English terms dictionary
kick around — phrasal verb kick around or kick about Word forms kick around : present tense I/you/we/they kick around he/she/it kicks around present participle kicking around past tense kicked around past participle kicked around informal 1) British… … English dictionary
kick around — verb 1. discuss lightly We bandied around these difficult questions • Syn: ↑bandy • Hypernyms: ↑hash out, ↑discuss, ↑talk over • Verb Frames: S … Useful english dictionary
kick around — 1) PHRASAL VERB If you kick around ideas or suggestions, you discuss them informally. [INFORMAL] [V n P] We kicked a few ideas around... [V P n (not pron)] They started to kick around the idea of an electric scraper. Syn: play with 2) PHRASAL… … English dictionary
kick around — {v.}, {informal} 1. To act roughly or badly to; treat badly; bully. * /John likes to kick around the little boys./ * /Mr. Jones is always kicking his dog around./ Syn.: PUSH AROUND. 2. To lie around or in a place; be treated carelessly; be… … Dictionary of American idioms
kick\ around — v informal 1. To act roughly or badly to; treat badly; bully. John likes to kick around the little boys. Mr. Jones is always kicking his dog around. Syn.: push around 2. To lie around or in a place; be treated carelessly; be neglected. This old… … Словарь американских идиом
kick around — phr verb Kick around is used with these nouns as the object: ↑football … Collocations dictionary
kick around (or about) — (of a thing) lie unwanted or unexploited. ↘(of a person) drift idly from place to place. → put the kibosh on … English new terms dictionary
kick around — kick (someone) around to treat someone badly. When his boss didn t promote him, he felt as if he d been kicked around long enough, and he finally quit. He represents every big guy that s ever kicked around a little guy … New idioms dictionary
kick around — kick (something) around to discuss something. I don t know who will be on the committee, but we ve kicked a lot of names around. Black intellectuals have been kicking around the idea since the beginning of the twentieth century … New idioms dictionary
