Make the rounds with someone
Hi,
What does 'to make the rounds with someone' mean?
"For one doctor, a successful wife isn't enough to keep him from making the rounds with a young receptionist."
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A doctor in a hospital makes his rounds. He visits his patients one after another until he's seen them all. The writer has tried to force a euphemism with poor results.
- A doctor in a hospital makes his rounds.
- He visits his patients one after another until he's seen them all.
- The writer has tried to force a euphemism with poor results.
- The doctor is having an extramarital affair with a young receptionist at the hospital, and we are supposed to accept "making the rounds with" as a euphemism for "having an affair with", but such forced euphemisms have to make literal sense at least obliquely, and this does not.
- The writer hoped that the similarity between "running around with" (a standard way of saying "having an affair") and "making the rounds with" would be enough, but it isn't.
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A doctor in a hospital makes his rounds. He visits his patients one after another until he's seen them all. The writer has tried to force a euphemism with poor results. The doctor is having an extramarital affair with a young receptionist at the hospital, and we are supposed to accept "making the rounds with" as a euphemism for "having an affair with", but such forced euphemisms have to make l
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