make the rounds
Idioms-
Follow a given circuit, as in The watchman makes the rounds every hour , or The gossip soon made the rounds of the school . Versions of this expression, such as go the rounds, follow the rounds, march the rounds , date from about 1600.
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make rounds . Visit each hospitalized patient who is under the care of a specific physician, as in The surgery residents make rounds with their chief every morning . [c. 1900]
Example Sentences
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Jokes of offerings make the rounds each spring, though Eberle said he hasn’t seen that happen personally.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023
They didn’t know what it was when they picked it up, but they figured that scrap metal buyers who make the rounds where they live in northwestern Syria might pay about 30 cents for it.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2023
Brooks: For truth’s sake, when Kelly and I started to make the rounds with the screenplay that’s the movie, there was a lot of rejection.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
However, he adds that another incentive was the fact that automated delivery is often faster than waiting for delivery trucks to make the rounds.
From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2022
When I had been in the demons’ country for over two years, Uncle sent me to make the rounds among some of our regular customers in the Tang people’s town to collect overdue bills.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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