fiddle around

fiddle around
phrasal verb fiddle around or fiddle about [intransitive]
Word forms "fiddle around":
present tense I/you/we/they fiddle around he/she/it fiddles around present participle fiddling around past tense fiddled around past participle fiddled around
1) British
fiddle around with same as fiddle I, 1)

He's been fiddling around with the VCR again.

2) British to waste time doing things that are not important or useful

English dictionary. 2014.

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  • fiddle around — (in BRIT, also use fiddle about) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you fiddle around or fiddle about with a machine, you do things to it to try and make it work. [V P with n] Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine. [Also V P] Syn: tinker 2)… …   English dictionary

  • fiddle around — See: FOOL AROUND(3) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fiddle around — See: FOOL AROUND(3) …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • fiddle\ around — See: fool around(3) …   Словарь американских идиом

  • fiddle around — tinker, do something in an unplanned way I tried fiddling around with the computer printer for awhile but it still won t work …   Idioms and examples

  • fiddle around — …   Useful english dictionary

  • fiddle around with something — …   Useful english dictionary

  • fiddle — [fid′ l] n. [ME fithele < OE < VL * vitula < L vitulari, to rejoice: vi (< IE * woi , wi , outcry > OE wi, Gr ia) + ? base of tollere, to raise, exalt] 1. Informal any stringed instrument played with a bow, esp. the violin ☆ 2.… …   English World dictionary

  • fiddle — fid|dle1 [ˈfıdl] n informal [Date: 1200 1300; : Medieval Latin; Origin: vitula instrument played at ceremonies ] 1.) a ↑violin 2.) BrE a dishonest way of getting money ▪ an insurance fiddle on the fiddle …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fiddle — 1 noun (C) informal 1 BrE a dishonest way of getting money: a tax fiddle | be on the fiddle (=be getting money dishonestly or illegally): They suspected he was on the fiddle all along. 2 a violin 3 be a fiddle to be difficult to do and involve… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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