poke around
UK also poke about informal— phrasal verb with poke uk/pəʊk/us/poʊk/verb
to search for something by moving things around, usually not in a very careful or organized way:
I was poking around in the drawer, looking for the key, when I found this!
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- quest
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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