Английский словарь американских идиом - fool around
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Fool around
fool around
or mess around or play around or monkey around {v.}, {informal} 1. To spend time playing, fooling, or joking instead of being serious or working; waste time. * /If you go to college, you must work, not fool around./ * /The boys fooled around all afternoon in the park./ Compare: CUT UP(2). To treat or handle carelessly. * /Bob cut himself by fooling around with a sharp knife./ * /Suzie says she wishes John would quit playing around with the girls and get married./ 3. or fiddle around To work or do something in an irregular or unplanned way; tinker. * /Jimmy likes to monkey around with automobile engines./ * /Alice is fooling around with the piano in her spare time./ Compare: FUCK AROUND. FOOL AROUND See: MESS AROUND.
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1. If you fool around, you behave in a silly, dangerous, or irresponsible way. They were fooling around on an Army firing range... Have you been fooling around with something you shouldn’t? PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P with n 2. If someone fools around with another person, especially when one of them is married, they have a casual sexual relationship. Never fool around with the clients’ wives... Her husband was fooling around. PHRASAL VERB: V P with n, V P 3. If you fool around, you behave in a playful, childish, and silly way, often in order to make people laugh. In British English, you can also say you fool about. They fooled around for the camera. = mess about PHRASAL VERB: V P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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intransitive verb Date: 1837 1. to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously 2. to engage in casual sexual activity ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. дурачиться you don't fool around on a fifle range —- на стрельбище нельзя валять дурака 2. болтаться попусту 3. волочиться за кем-л. 4. (with) играть you shouldn't fool around with the boy's love —- не нужно играть любовью этого мальчика 5. дразнить ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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