Wiktionary
alt. (context idiomatic English) To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive. vb. (context idiomatic English) To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive.
Usage examples of "have been around".
In the past few years I have been around the world three times, traveled in most of the communist countries, visited many of the so-called emerging countries, plus many trips to Europe and to South America.
A lot of the Navy men have been around the world a few times and seen it for themselves, but those Army guys have spent their careers mowing down Chinamen and raping their women and they honestly believe that the Americans are just the same except taller and smellier.
If they were careful around him, they were no more so than they might have been around anyone whose temper was to be feared, and they treated him not just as a dangerous hireling but as a comrade who'd bled and fought with them.
If we assume that the bees have been around for, say, a million years .
But psi powers, if they exist at all, have been around since man was definably human.
At that tonnage, her normal maximum acceleration should have been around five hundred gravities.