mulling about

[Benjamin Barrett]

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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