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screw around
Fool around aimlessly, accomplishing nothing, as in If you boys would stop screwing around we'd have the fence painted in an hour . It is also put as screw around with , as in Stop screwing around with the new camera . The idiom probably derives from screw in the sense of “turn” or “twist.” [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]
Be sexually promiscuous, as in He's been screwing around behind her back for years . [ Vulgar slang ; first half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
I’m talking about giving your brain some time to screw around without all your guilty productivity-gouging, giving it a break from your constant money-panic and letting it chill in the peaceful abyss of a non-scrollable daydream — even if just for a little while — every single day.
“Funny or Die,” the experimental comedy video website and film-television production company, got its start when director and former “Saturday Night Live” writer Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and writer-director Chris Henchy said, “Let’s screw around.”
Or he could screw around with the critical work McCarthy needs to move through the House in September—namely, funding the government.
He irked some in the U.K. by saying later that he’d visited Northern Ireland to make sure “the Brits didn’t screw around.”
He raised eyebrows in London last month when he told a Democratic fund-raiser in New York City that he had gone to Belfast to make sure “the Brits didn’t screw around” with Northern Ireland, after Mr. Sunak negotiated a deal with the European Union to resolve trade frictions in the territory.
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