boss one around
To keep giving someone orders; to act overbearingly toward someone.
"If you keep bossing me around, darling," Tom said to Jane, "the days of our relationship are surely numbered."
break fresh ground
break new ground
To start a new activity previously neglected by others; do pioneering work.
Начать новый вид деятельности, на который ранее никто не обрашал внимание; быть первооткрывателем.
Albert Einstein broke new ground with his theory of relativity.
To begin something never done before.
The school broke new ground with reading lessons that taught students to guess the meaning of new words.
Scientists have broken fresh ground in their exploration of outer space.
Ученые открыли новые горизонты в исследовании открытого космоса.
break ground
To begin a construction project by digging for the foundation; especially, to turn the formal first spadeful of dirt.
City officials and industrial leaders were there as the company broke ground for its new building.
bring around
bring round
To restore to health or consciousness cure.
He was quite ill, but good nursing brought him around.
To cause a change in thinking; persuade; convince; make willing.
After a good deal of discussion he brought her round to his way of thinking.
bum around
To aimlessly wander in no definite direction, like a vagabond.
Jim had been bumming around in the desert for three days and nights before he was able to remember how he got there in the first place.
cast about
cast around
To look everywhere; search.
The committee was casting about for an experienced teacher to take the retiring principal's place.
To search your mind; try to remember something; try to think of something.
The teacher cast about for an easy way to explain the lesson.
Jane cast around for a good subject for her report.
chum around with
To be close friends with someone.
They have been chumming around with one another for quite some time.
To travel around with someone.
Jack is planning to chum around with Tim in Europe this summer.
come round
come around
To happen or appear again and again in regular order.
And so Saturday night came around again.
I will tell him when he comes round again.
To get back health or knowledge of things; get well from sickness or a faint.
Someone brought out smelling salts and Mary soon came round.
Jim has come around after having had stomach ulcers.
To change direction.
The wind has come round to the south.
To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another's.
Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story.