I was watching an interview the other day on Ellen DeGeneres show and I heard a very interesting expression: to make the rounds. Do you have an idea of what that means? Here's a little bit of insight on the interview when that expression came up: The president Obama had just been elected and a journalist from a magazine thought it would be appropriate to publish an article kind of calling him gay for simply supporting gay causes. The interviewee was asked what she thought about that, and she said it was pretty much junior high [meaning to be childish], and that rumors like take making the rounds in the United States are just embarrassing.
When rumors make the round in some place, it means they're being passed from person to person. That's what was happening with the president when the interview was held. Many public people have to go through that kind of situation. Some random journalist thinks it's okay to spread rumors about someone in the media and everybody assumes it's true without questioning their sources.
The same expression has a different meaning. For example, suppose you go to Europe and you make a point to visit as many museums as possible. When you come back to Brazil, everybody asks what places you've been to and you say you made the rounds of all the museums through the countries you visited. In that context, when you make the rounds in some place, it means you go from place to place. Pay attention to the prepositions in that expressions. You make the rounds OF a specific place IN a general place. For example, you make the rounds OF all the departments IN the company. Pretty easy huh? That's all for today. Talk to you next time!
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