put it about

verb2

1. •
   (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.

   • He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
2. •
   (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.

   • Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much. — 2004