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Phrase(s): float through something
1. Lit. to move slowly through water or air, gently. • The boats floated through the water slowly and gracefully. • As the clouds floated through the sky, they cast blotchy shadows on the ground. 2. Fig. [for someone] to move aimlessly through something. (As if semiconscious.) • She has no ambition. She’s just floating through life. • He floated through his work that day. It is probably done all wrong.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs