<span class="searchmatch">working</span> <span class="searchmatch">around</span> present participle and gerund of work <span class="searchmatch">around</span>...
work <span class="searchmatch">around</span> (third-person singular simple present works <span class="searchmatch">around</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">working</span> <span class="searchmatch">around</span>, simple past and past participle worked <span class="searchmatch">around</span>) Used...
to do nothing productive; to waste time. Why are some people <span class="searchmatch">working</span> and some are standing <span class="searchmatch">around</span>? We've just been standing <span class="searchmatch">around</span> until you got here....
<span class="searchmatch">around</span> From play <span class="searchmatch">around</span>. Rhymes: -aʊnd playaround (plural playarounds) An instance of <span class="searchmatch">working</span> in a nonserious manner; an instance of playing <span class="searchmatch">around</span>....
This phrase may originally have referred to an Irish shoe peddler <span class="searchmatch">working</span> <span class="searchmatch">around</span> Accrington, East Lancashire, in the early 1900s, from the phrase "more...
See also: all <span class="searchmatch">around</span> From all- + <span class="searchmatch">around</span>, compare all-round. all-<span class="searchmatch">around</span> (not comparable) (chiefly Canada, US) (idiomatic) Able to do many or all things...
auxiliary avére) (intransitive) to loaf <span class="searchmatch">around</span>, to hang <span class="searchmatch">around</span>, to loiter; to waste time instead of <span class="searchmatch">working</span> [auxiliary avere] Synonym: ciondolare (intransitive)...
indirect approach. 1986, Frank Stella, <span class="searchmatch">Working</span> Space, →ISBN, page 54: Acknowledging Annibale Carracci is the long way <span class="searchmatch">around</span> to Rubens, but it is the route of...
singular simple present works round, present participle <span class="searchmatch">working</span> round, simple past and past participle worked round) Alternative form of work <span class="searchmatch">around</span>....
brat; compare army brat. diplobrat (plural diplobrats) (slang) A person who had a parent <span class="searchmatch">working</span> as a diplomat and thus travelled <span class="searchmatch">around</span> as a child....