mess around

Outside, a group of parents sat around long picnic tables, ignoring their kids who were messing around in the dirt.

“I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me,” he added.

The real matcha farmers don’t mess around, and they definitely don’t cut corners.

O’Brien lived it up in the final week of his modestly rated show, smoking a blunt with Seth Rogen, messing around with Jack Black and being congratulated by a slew of celebrities wishing him well.

The witness described how Harvey and the defendant had been pushing each other at break time earlier that day, but he thought they were just "messing around".