put it about
English
Verb
- (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
- He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was 1⁄2 as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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