Green’s Dictionary of Slang

go around v.

(US) to argue, to fight, to be obsessed with something bad.

1947		N. Algren Neon Wilderness (1986) 44: We went around that night. We went to battle then for true.
1957		(con. 1943) A. Myrer Big War 167: Don’t go around on it, boy, only makes it worse.

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