HAVE BEEN AROUND meaning: Experienced or knowledgeable from exposure - OneLook

Usually means: Experienced or knowledgeable from exposure.

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have been around: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
have been around: Wiktionary
have been around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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have been around: Idioms

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have been around: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (have been around)

▸ verb: (idiomatic) To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive.

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smell of the lamp, smell of the shop, age like milk, like, get sturdy, have one's name written all over, muddy, taint, reek, feature, more...

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have been around the block, have been around the block a few times, more...

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Similar:

smell of the lamp, smell of the shop, age like milk, like, get sturdy, have one's name written all over, muddy, taint, reek, feature, more...

Phrases:

have been around the block, have been around the block a few times, more...

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