monkey around

The placard was illustrated with a black-and-white photograph of a crew-cut astronaut wearing a monkey around his neck.

And I suppose you can, for you always liked to monkey around with words.

However badly we may do it, patriotism demands that we monkey around with a garden of our own.

If Hebe was on the job, hed eat a fellow up who tried to monkey around the gym.

It'll be a kind of hint for you not to monkey around after other fellows' wives.

In any event, ghosts don't monkey around at this time of day.