mess around
Example Sentences
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"It was this or nothing. You can't mess around, or you'll burn your eyes."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Instead they have banded together in a rare display of gentle mockery of an organization that doesn’t mess around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
"Alan makes a good point about how everyone wants to mess around on the ball these days," Sutton explained.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
“I said a prayer: Fernando, por favor, no-no-no me molestes, yo tengo miedo. Wait until we get up there and we’ll joke around, but don’t mess around with my house. I was scared.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
They had peeled back the shirt and the arm was whitely soft where they had cleaned it and there was a mess around the shoulder.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
