hang about

One ally of Mahmood told the BBC: "She knows that time is of the essence. She didn't take long to take big decisions at the Ministry of Justice, and she doesn't tend to hang about."

He needs to invent reasons to still hang about without wanting to admit that he cares, even though he does.

They hang about 20 feet down and stretch about 20 feet out.

Desmond, Lawwell and Nicholson will have hoped for at least another season from Postecoglou but, equally, they'll have known that an ambitious 57-year-old with a burgeoning reputation wasn't going to hang about if a big club in England came calling.

"People over the road were showing pictures with a big fire on the roof. If I'd seen that I would have thought, 'I'm not going to hang about.'"