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Definition of Bandy about
1. Verb. Discuss casually. "Bandy about an idea"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bandy About
Literary usage of Bandy about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1889)
"... and casually, but that he should everywhere bandy about the name of the Lord
of Angels familiarly with much irreverence ! And if it be necessary to take ..."
2. The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the by John Chrysostom (1842)
"... him unceremoniously, and just as he lists, but that he' should every where
bandy about the name of the Lord of Angels familiarly with much irreverence! ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"The falling band succeeded the cumbersome ruff. band, to bandy about, like a
tennis-ball. Look about You, sc. 32, l. 5 ; in Hazlitt's Dodsley, vii. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, Edited from the by George Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott (1846)
"The Jacobins bandy about both sets of speeches, and at the same time their leaders
pretend they wish for Mr. Adams to be President, and Mr. Jefferson Vice ..."
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