go all around the Wrekin

Meanings:

• 1.

  West Midlands (England)literalregional
  • To take a long or circuitous route around the Wrekin (a prominent hill in Shropshire), used literally of a roundabout physical journey.

• 2.

  West Midlands (England)idiomaticcolloquialregional
  • To take an unnecessarily long, indirect, or convoluted approach; to delay arrival or completion by taking a roundabout course.