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float around/about
informal IDEA
2. If an idea or story floats around, it is discussed or repeated by a lot of people
• rumours floating around, float around/about
informal OBJECT
1. You say that an object is floating around when you think it is not far away but you cannot see exactly where
• I can't find my purse, but it must be floating around here somewhere.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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verb on water/in air ADV. gently | downstream, downwards | upwards In the dream my feet leave the ground and I start to float upwards. | about, around, away, off VERB + FLOAT seem to Her voice seemed to float on the water as gently as a slight mist. PREP. across A few small clouds floated across the sky. | down chunks of ice floating down the river | in pieces of wood floating in the water | on A few leaves floated on the surface of the water. currency ADV. freely The government decided to allow the peso to float freely. VERB + FLOAT allow sth to
Oxford Collocations Dictionary