stand around
UK also stand about, stand round— phrasal verb with stand uk/stænd/us/stænd/verb stood, stood
to spend time standing somewhere and doing very little:
We stood around in the cold for about an hour, waiting for the demo to start.
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Avoiding action
- avoid
- avoid sth like the plague idiom
- avoidance
- bottle
- bottle out
- flinch
- flinch from sth/doing sth
- fudge
- get out of sth
- get-out clause
- insure
- shrink
- shy away from sth
- sit on your arse idiom
- skip out on sb/sth
- stand by
- stand round
- steer
- welch
- welsh
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