Английский словарь американских идиом - mess around
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Mess around
mess around
{v. phr.} 1. To engage in idle or purposeless activity. * /Come on, you guys, - start doing some work, don't just mess around all day!/ 2. {vulgar} To be promiscuous; to indulge in sex with little discrimination as to who the partner is. * /Allen needs straightening out; he's been messing around with the whole female population of his class./ Compare: FOOL AROUND.
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1. If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything. We were just messing around playing with paint... Boys and girls will enjoy messing about with any kind of machine. PHRASAL VERB: V P, V P with n 2. If you say that someone is messing around with or messing about with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way. I’d like to know who’s been messing about with the pram. PHRASAL VERB: V P with n 3. If someone is messing around or messing about, they are behaving in a joking or silly way. I thought she was messing about. = fool around PHRASAL VERB: V P 4. If you mess someone around or mess them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them, or by continually changing plans which affect them. (mainly BRIT) I think they’ve been messed around far too much. PHRASAL VERB: V n P ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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intransitive verb Date: 1918 1. to waste time ; dawdle, idle 2. a. associate don't ~ with admirals much — K. M. Dodson b. flirt, philander caught him messing around with my wife ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. разг. лодырничать, бездельничать he spent all day Sunday just messing around —- все воскресенье он проболтался без дела what were you doing? - Just messing around —- ты что делал? - Ничего (особенного) stop messing around —- перестань канителиться 2. возиться I love messing around in boats —- я люблю заниматься лодками (повозиться с лодками) the children were messing around in the mud —- дети копошились в грязи 3. валять дурака stop messing around with him and tell him the truth —- перестань дразнить его и скажи ему всю правду ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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