make (one's) the rounds Idiom, Proverb

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on moral grounds

based on what is right and wrong We refuse to accept money from drug dealers - on moral grounds.

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stamping grounds

a place where a person spends much of his time He went back to his old stamping grounds which he remembered as a teenager.

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do the rounds

to be circulating: "There's a new joke doing the rounds about the President."

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go the rounds|go|rounds

v. phr. To pass or be told from one person to another; spread among many people. There is a rumor going the rounds that Mr. Norton will be the new superintendent. The story about Mr. Cox's falling into the lake is making the rounds.
Synonym: GO AROUND.

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make rounds|make|rounds

v. phr. To travel the same route, making several stops along the way. The milkman makes his rounds every morning. The doctor makes the rounds of the hospital rooms.

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make rounds

make rounds
see make the rounds, def. 2.

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make the rounds

make the rounds
1) Follow a given circuit, as in The watchman makes the rounds every hour, or The gossip soon made the rounds of the school. Versions of this expression, such as go the rounds, follow the rounds, march the rounds, date from about 1600.
2) make rounds. Visit each hospitalized patient who is under the care of a specific physician, as in The surgery residents make rounds with their chief every morning. [c. 1900]