kicking around

It was an idea that Darren had been kicking around for a while—about ten years.

There are other ideas kicking around about what could happen to the home on Seymour Avenue.

Topiramate is unrelated to any other drug, and has been kicking around for years.

“These are questions that have been kicking around for a long time,” said one basic cable executive who requested anonymity.

“That story has been kicking around in my head for 20 years,” Englander said.

And then they ran upstairs through the kitchen to see the end of it, and I was kicking around down there for five minutes!

Lambert mended his tire, using an old rubber boot that Taterleg found kicking around camp to plug the big holes in his outer tube.

They have been kicking around for years, he says—so small that nobody wanted them.

She's been kicking around under foot ever since she was knee high to a duck—we gave her her first lessons on a slide rule.

Ballard, kicking around in the solution, was trying to drag himself up on the plank as Merry crept toward him.