fart around
phr. v..phr. v.. to waste time doing silly or unimportant things when you should be working.
phr. v.. to behave in a frivolous or unproductive manner; to waste time on trivialities. Marked as informal and mildly vulgar in some dialects.
Stop farting around and finish your homework.
We spent the whole afternoon farting around in the garage instead of actually fixing the car.
While the management team continued to fart around with minor aesthetic details, the core infrastructure of the project began to collapse under its own weight.
- Particles
- around
- Separability
- inseparable
- Pattern
- fart + around
highly informal and can be considered slightly rude; use only with friends or in very casual settings.
use this to teach the 'around' particle's function of indicating aimless or unproductive activity, similar to 'mess around' or 'fool around'.
He is farting around of the office.He is farting around the office.the phrase does not require 'of' when used with a location; it functions as an intransitive verb or with a prepositional place.