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Phrase(s): spread something around
to distribute news or gossip. • Please don’t spread this around, but Don ran away from home! • Don’t spread around that story!, Phrase(s): spread someone or something around
to distribute people or things over an area. • Spread the good singers around so they can help the others in the choir. • Liz spread around the seeds so they would dry.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs