mulling about

[Joel S. Berson]

mulling over + milling about -> mulling about.  (The "about" changes
from "around in space" to "around in someone's head".)  In any case,
it's what reporters, CNN and elsewhere, do on air when they don't
have any solid facts to report.

Joel

At 6/7/2013 05:55 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Rob the Tutor comments on this:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iri1ZsbtA1w. He says it's an American
>expression.
>
>Here's one with a pun on mulberry:
>http://www.rappnews.com/2012/06/07/photo-mulling-about-3/94257/
>
>Other internet instances:
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/nardell/2955695571/
>http://www.freesound.org/people/Canukfa/sounds/143305/geotag/
>http://voices.yahoo.com/halloween-songs-look-all-old-folks-mulling-2030651.html?cat=33
>http://extra-ordinaries.blogspot.com/2012/11/day-2-atlanta-georgia-airport-mulling.html
>
>Here's one that seems to be in between the two meanings:
>http://el-hazard.deviantart.com/journal/Just-mulling-about-for-a-few-hours-247430670
>
>Book citations:
>http://ow.ly/lPfc2
>http://ow.ly/lPfjn
>http://ow.ly/lPfoa
>
>Benjamin Barrett
>Seattle, WA
>
>On Jun 7, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's a CNN thing...
> >
> > http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/23/messages/519.html
> >
> > DanG
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Michael Sheehan <wordmall at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> =20
> >> CNN studio anchor to reporter on the scene of the Santa Monica College =
> >> shooting:
> >> "Is everyone just mulling about?"
> >>
> >> Michael Sheehan
>
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