ferret around
ferret round
ferret about

This ferret was black, but all the ferrets around here are brown.

Some people carry their ferrets around in bags or sacks.

Hacker is astonished and instructs Weisel to "ferret around".

But once installed, it would enable him to ferret around inside the administrator's computer and identify the source of the mpegs.

So I 'phoned Washburn, explained the problem and was put onto one Nick who, after a quick ferret around in various boxes, told me he'd stick one in the post.

This year's freeze, the first reasonable winter conditions in years, tempted Mick, a trained geologist, to ferret around in his stock of Ordnance Survey maps looking for the word 'waterfall'.

Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows, I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End.

"This proves they either knew about the op- eration before it went down and had time not only to iden- tify each member of the SEAL team, but to ferret around in their personal lives, as well."

When he caught his breath after the wriggle and scramble through the little window, he flung himself down on his belly to ferret around under the beds, examining every stick of furniture and every comer of the room closely.

There is the poet John Slater, once famously precocious, the kind of fellow "who brought Unity Mitford to dinner during the period she was stealing stationery from Buckingham Palace and carrying that nasty little ferret around in her handbag."

You want me to ferret around the political sewers in London and recruit whatever rats I can find who are willing to work for an outfit that's trying to set up the kind of Germany we had to cut into two so that it couldn't do any more damage.

It only needed a clever spy who knew something about science to get through the barbed wire into the prison compound, ferret around in a dustbin until he found a piece of blotting paper with some diagrams scribbled on it, and the American intelligence service would be apprised of the whole direction our work was taking.

Ferret rounded the exit and into the hall.

Ferret rounded the end of the row of tanks.

The summary said that there had been an "attempt to penetrate bunker w/1 military round and two ferret rounds.

I'm not trying to ferret round among your private affairs; I don't know anything about them, and I don't want to.

"The idea is," Tommy said, "that I should go there and--well--ferret round."

I began to ferret round the room, opening drawers and cupboards, then moving to Anderson's old steel desk and rifling through the papers, hoping to find a diary or a log; something here had to give a clue to Anderson's activities.

Outside the compound nine Bradley Fighting Vehicles carrying M651 CS tear gas grenades and Ferret rounds, as well as five M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles (CEVs) obtained from the U.S. Army began patrolling.

Instead we have to ferret about to find what crumbs of information we can.

"Could you have your 'source' down at Woodcarver's ferret about with the question?"

Most of these pieces of stone were much too small to have been used for monumental masons' work; so still puzzled, he began to ferret about for some clue to what was made out of them.

Brett was probably the son or a relation of Captain Timothy Brett, with whom he went to sea in the sloop Ferret about the year 1722, with the rating of captain's servant.

W follows the (useful) practice of listing a shortened pronunciation key on each right-hand page; L 's failure to do so is a disadvantage, notwithstanding the simplicity of their system, for the user must ferret about to find the description given on page xxii to clarify any question.