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Phrase(s): gather around someone or something
to collect around someone or something. • Let’s all gather around her and hear her out. • Please gather around the table for dinner., Phrase(s): gather someone or something around (oneself)
to collect people or things around oneself; to draw someone or something to oneself. • He gathered a lot of arty people around himself. • She liked to gather exotic plants around herself. • Grandpa gathered all the kids around and read them a story.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs