around the campfire
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2.2
- idiom
- Informal
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alrededor de la fogata
- Let's gather around the campfire to tell spooky stories and roast marshmallows.
- sat around the campfire
- gather around the campfire
- talk around the campfire
And I think that's The thing is human nature is to gather around the campfire and tell stories and share our experiences.
- And I think that's The thing is human nature is to gather around the campfire and tell stories and share our experiences.
- If you're in the circle in the village around the campfire and you offend the chief and they banish you from the tribe, you're going to die.
- It wasn't something that climbers are sitting around the campfire talking about, you know, because it wasn't just, it just wasn't even on the radar of possibility.
- I would have been the one around the campfire that built the mythology and just really one understood the deep psychological impact of story.
Examples
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After all, much of the singing took place in the evenings around the campfire, as part of the socializing after the day's labors ended.
Academic text (2005) -
You could sing around the campfire and watch shooting stars.
Fiction book (2002) -
Come on over here and we'll sit around the campfire.
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Oh, we could all hold hands around the campfire some other time!
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Sit around the campfire at night.
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Among the finest elements of camping out is sitting down around the campfire.
Blog text (2) -
We'd get together and sing around the campfire.
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At night, the vaqueros would tell tales around the campfire.
Fiction book (1991) -
I think his favorite part was sitting up with the other dads around the campfire after lights-out.
Fiction book (2002) -
- When I was a kid, we used to sit around the campfire and we'd tell stories about giant snakes and Bigfoot, but I've never seen anything more dangerous that a black bear up here.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'around' (indicating spatial proximity) and 'campfire' (an outdoor fire), so a learner who knows both words will infer being near or gathered by the fire. The social nuance of talking or sharing stories while seated by a fire is a common, cross-linguistic scenario and does not require idiomatic knowledge beyond the literal composition.
Etymology
Around the campfire comes from the simple picture of people sitting in a circle near a campfire, telling stories, singing, and passing food. So it now means being in a friendly group to 'talk', 'relax', or 'share stories'.