go around
phr. v..phr. v.. to be enough for everyone in a group to have some.
phr. v.. to be sufficient in quantity to satisfy the needs or demands of all members of a group.
Is there enough cake to go around?
The teacher made sure there were enough colored pencils to go around before the art project started.
During the economic crisis, there simply wasn't enough work to go around, leading to a significant rise in local unemployment rates.
usually used in the infinitive form after 'enough' or 'sufficient'.
focus on the distributive sense of the phrase; it often appears in questions or negative statements regarding resources like food, money, or time.
There is enough bread to go around it.There is enough bread to go around.in this sense, 'go around' is intransitive and does not take a direct object.