fiddle about

VERB

waste time

Synonyms

WEAK

burn daylight dally dawdle delay dillydally fritter away time goof off kill time linger loiter lollygag lose time pass the time piddle procrastinate shilly-shally take one's own sweet time take one's time tarry while away the time

Example Sentences

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“You didn’t care a fiddle about Levi, did you? Yet here you are, crying.”

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2022

These are the engineers who fiddle about with different technologies, trying things out and making do.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2019

Permission to fiddle about with the schedules - no.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2015

Yes, quite nice, probably – especially if we fiddle about round that corner bit for a while and then ...

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2010

He hasn’t much to do, except to fiddle about in the carpenter’s shop.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard