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(v.) = dawdle, mess around, pissing into the wind, mess about, faff (about/around), pootle, sit + idle, muck around/about, piddle aroundEx. The title of the article is 'The challenge of the information country lane (and those who dawdle in it)'.Ex. The article is entitled 'Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around'.Ex. Though the national media will ignore his candidacy, the politically pure of heart will be able to vote their conscience -- and once again have a grand old Quixotic time pissing into the wind.Ex. If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.Ex. A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.Ex. Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.Ex. Rather than spend the money on the navy we could stop mucking about with wind farms and build more proper power stations.Ex. After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.* * *(v.) = dawdle, mess around, pissing into the wind, mess about, faff (about/around), pootle, sit + idle, muck around/about, piddle aroundEx: The title of the article is 'The challenge of the information country lane (and those who dawdle in it)'.
Ex: The article is entitled 'Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around'.Ex: Though the national media will ignore his candidacy, the politically pure of heart will be able to vote their conscience -- and once again have a grand old Quixotic time pissing into the wind.Ex: If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.Ex: A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.Ex: Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.Ex: Rather than spend the money on the navy we could stop mucking about with wind farms and build more proper power stations.Ex: After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
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