The phrase
"to screw around" is an idiomatic expression that means to waste time or be lazy by engaging in unproductive activities, often with a playful or casual attitude.
Full definition
I wouldn't
screw around with this «everything changes» garbage, that's for damn sure.
It is your job to pay your bills, but it is there job to collect them on time,
not screw around for 2 years and expect payment in full.
It effectively created the sandbox style of gameplay, i.e. a world completely open for you to
screw around in.
It's easily the most fun addition to the series as it provides the perfect place to practice your skills or
just screw around.
As long as you do what you need to do when it counts, you can take time off and
screw around when it doesn't.
You can
screw around quite a bit with both spelling and word order and still be understood.
As the years went by, I saw friendships crash and burn as
kids screwed around with their commitments.
I can't quite believe I did that, but I was quite particular about my fridge contents from an early age and didn't want my menu
planning screwed around.
This shows the value of walking with a weight vest — it kills two birds with one stone and eliminates having to
screw around with countless exercises in the weight room.
Once you miss a story mission you can
just screw around and kill zombies or survivors.
Instead
of screwing around in the media trying to assign blame for the recent US heat wave to CO2 and threatening to burn down the houses of those who disagree with us, we should be arguing about what matters.
This is because everyone knows that inflight Wi - Fi is only used for conducting business and being productive, not for wasting
time screwing around on Facebook.
The Orioles can
stop screwing around with expensive pitchers like Yovani Gallardo and Ubaldo Jimenez, and get an ace who's under team control for several years at a low price, which would allow them to be competitive for Manny Machado.
So, ask yourself right now, before reading on — are you committed to do what it takes to become a master trader or are you going to keep wasting your time, energy and money
by screwing around with trading indicators all over your charts and a hundred different trading blog subscriptions all telling you something different?
That doesn't mean you want to
screw around for a few decades, wake up when you're 60 and declare, «I'm ready, now show me the money.»
I just
started screwing around with metal, found the colors of the desert, then realized that this is a viable way to express myself and impact the culture,» he says.
I didn't go as far as IVF but I did have fertility treatments to conceive and I was not remotely interested in
screwing around so I could have my lavender - scented - candle - and - pretty - sunlight birth experience.
It's the sort of thing you'd do with a cheat code in Dead Rising long after you've finished actually playing and now you're just
screwing around out of boredom.
I know of a prominent scientist — a really big cheese, a whole wheel of Gorgonzola — who tumbled down the stairs
while screwing around on a phone and wound up hospitalized.
If you take too
long screwing around or trying to solve a tricky platforming puzzle, you'll get a reminder that time is running low and you need to move faster.
I can promise you that if you
keep screwing around by being unorganized and half - assing it, you are never going to pull the sort of money from the market that you want.
In the mobile industry, this typically high - ball number
gets screwed around with by carriers and retailers with their bundles and new line campaigns and whatnot.
Summary: The replay revisions are generally outstanding, no one wants to see
batters screw around outside of the batter's box, but the not - a-pitch-clock clock is somewhere between unpleasant and repugnant.
But if you appreciate the Pro Bowl for what it is — a group of really good football
players screwing around in a pickup game for a couple of hours — it can still be somewhat enjoyable.
He had a good start to his rookie season before the Packers starting
screwing around moving him to LB, and back.
Chronic sleep deprivation is nothing to
casually screw around with, and I think that actually goes double for the primary caretakers of small children and our charges.
They
even screwed around with another Moreland Commission appointed by the governor to investigate the Long Island Power Authority's dismal post - Sandy performance.
«
Washington screwed around and couldn't get it done,» says Sperling, who is also a member of the California Air Resources Board that set up the climate change program.
I'm an electronics major (read: computer nerd) going to my local college.I spend most of my time, when not
screwing around online or on my console, either on...
I generally find it hard to discern whether or not Haneke has a legitimate point to make, or he just
enjoys screwing around.
He also
loves screwing around with planes of narrative reality and royally messing with the player both inside and outside of the game.
The director had spent the better part of a
decade screwing around with «Spider - Man,» leaving his horror movie fans hanging.
Welcome to the new millennium: While most of us were
off screwing around on four wheels, motorcycles quietly went and got complicated.