arse about/around
UK offensive — phrasal verb with arse /ɑːs/
/ɑːrs/ verb Definition
› to act in a silly way or waste time: I wish he'd stop arsing around and actually do some work.Passive and not working
(Definition of arse about/around from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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