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Take a turn about the room

An amusing term which appears so ubiquitously in various film adaptations of Jane Austen novels that it really should enter the public lexicon as a bit of tounge-in-cheek banter mocking the stilted, formal manner of speech common during the Regency period.
Chick: Dude, my legs are really shaky after winning that drinking game.
Dude: Shall we take a turn about the room?
by Dovetchka December 28, 2005
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out and about girl

a girl who thinks she's hot, and thinks all the guys think she is hot too. she posts a lot of pictures on facebook, and gets a lot of likes from guys. this makes her think she can have any guy she wants so she flirts with a bunch, and picks out the guy she wants to be with assuming he will like her back.
what an out and about girl she is, she is flirting with every guy thinking she has them all wrapped around her finger.
by hellocouturegirl December 5, 2011
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monkeying about

v, screwing around; waisting time; being off-task
"Stop monkeying about back there and get back to work!" said the angry boss.
by Garrett Wilkerson March 31, 2005
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about

What is that all ABOUT?

(It is in the pronuciation!!)
by Garrett Stephenson March 30, 2005
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In Cricket when a bowler is having a rather poor over, being hit for six or four every ball, ie smacked out of the ground. This is often refered to as being 'Smacked about like Sheryl Gascoigne'.
(Also used in computer game cricket game Brian Lara)

This saying comes from ex-footballer & ex-"manager" plus recovering alcoholic & wife beater Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne, who used to hit Sheryl about a bit.
"Ah man three sixes & two fours off that over, you're being Smacked about like Sheryl Gascoigne!"
by Ian February 7, 2006
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man about town

A gentleman with a bit of a reputation (sexual)with the ladies.
That Bill Clinton is a bit of a man about town.
by BC July 21, 2004
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