faff about/around
UK informal— phrasal verb with faff uk/fæf/us/fæf/verb
to spend your time doing a lot of things that are not important instead of the thing that you should be doing:
I wish you'd stop faffing about and do something useful!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- kid around
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
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