on about
idiom
British, informal + disapproving
: talking about
I haven't a clue what you're on about!
She is always on about the importance of exercise.
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Cusick sees between 50 to 100 patients with pectus excavatum each year — he’s performed the corrective surgery on about 275 patients.
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Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
Construction began on about 3,700 new single-family homes across Wisconsin this quarter, local building permit records show.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
Meruelo has set his sights on about 100 acres of land in northeast Phoenix, at Loop 101 west of Scottsdale Road.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2024
There are few independent studies of Florida’s insurance crisis, and the report offers insight into one of the state’s vulnerabilities: its reliance on about 50 small insurers, covering about 70% of policyholders, that are usually rated by a single company.
—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, teams of scientists and workers are focusing on restoring the landscape and natural vegetation on about 2,200 acres of denuded reservoir-bottom lands.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
It was surrounded by a big fence on about an acre and a half of property, always snowed in, and six of my seven kids were there, sometimes all seven.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
The zigzags represent movement, the researchers said, and have been seen on about 12% of the carvings at Toro Muerto.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
That too, in tandem with revisiting the wider industrial, mining and manufacturing chain - a critical facet of the energy transition - and not just badger on about sources of energy supply.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
Construction began on about 3,700 new single-family homes across Wisconsin this quarter, local building permit records show.
—Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
Meruelo has set his sights on about 100 acres of land in northeast Phoenix, at Loop 101 west of Scottsdale Road.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2024
There are few independent studies of Florida’s insurance crisis, and the report offers insight into one of the state’s vulnerabilities: its reliance on about 50 small insurers, covering about 70% of policyholders, that are usually rated by a single company.
—Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
Meanwhile, teams of scientists and workers are focusing on restoring the landscape and natural vegetation on about 2,200 acres of denuded reservoir-bottom lands.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
It was surrounded by a big fence on about an acre and a half of property, always snowed in, and six of my seven kids were there, sometimes all seven.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
The zigzags represent movement, the researchers said, and have been seen on about 12% of the carvings at Toro Muerto.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
That too, in tandem with revisiting the wider industrial, mining and manufacturing chain - a critical facet of the energy transition - and not just badger on about sources of energy supply.
—Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
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