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screw around

  1. Fool around aimlessly, accomplishing nothing, as in If you boys would stop screwing around we'd have the fence painted in an hour . It is also put as screw around with , as in Stop screwing around with the new camera . The idiom probably derives from screw in the sense of 鈥渢urn鈥 or 鈥渢wist.鈥 [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]

  2. Be sexually promiscuous, as in He's been screwing around behind her back for years . [ Vulgar slang ; first half of 1900s]



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I鈥檓 talking about giving your brain some time to screw around without all your guilty productivity-gouging, giving it a break from your constant money-panic and letting it chill in the peaceful abyss of a non-scrollable daydream 鈥 even if just for a little while 鈥 every single day.

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鈥淔unny or Die,鈥 the experimental comedy video website and film-television production company, got its start when director and former 鈥淪aturday Night Live鈥 writer Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and writer-director Chris Henchy said, 鈥淟et鈥檚 screw around.鈥

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Or he could screw around with the critical work McCarthy needs to move through the House in September鈥攏amely, funding the government.

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He irked some in the U.K. by saying later that he鈥檇 visited Northern Ireland to make sure 鈥渢he Brits didn鈥檛 screw around.鈥

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He raised eyebrows in London last month when he told a Democratic fund-raiser in New York City that he had gone to Belfast to make sure 鈥渢he Brits didn鈥檛 screw around鈥 with Northern Ireland, after Mr. Sunak negotiated a deal with the European Union to resolve trade frictions in the territory.

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