bandy about

present singular third person bandies about · participle present bandying about · participle past bandied about · past bandied about · alternative US throw about · alternative US bally about

1. transitiveTo say (things) frequently and casually, without due consideration.

   There are a lot of different figures being bandied about, but the exact cost will not be known for some time yet.

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   In the beginning Pnin was greatly embarrassed by the ease with which first names were bandied about in America: after a single party, with an iceberg in a drop of whisky to start and with a lot of whisky in a little tap water to finish, you were supposed to call a gray-templed stranger “Jim,” while he called you “Tim” for ever and ever.

   1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 4.8, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 104

   Synonyms: bandy around