cast about

[cast about] also [cast around] {v.}, {literary}

1. To look everywhere; search.

* /The committee was casting about for an experienced teacher to take the retiring principal's place./

2. To search your mind; try to remember something; try to think of something.

* /The teacher cast about for an easy way to explain the lesson./

* /Jane cast around for a good subject for her report./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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