fiddle around
Definition
› to take part in activity that doesn't achieve anything, esp. when this annoys someone: The legislature has fiddled around while our schools are falling apart. I wish they’d quit fiddling around with the tax law (= changing it without improving it).
(Definition of fiddle around from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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