fiddle-fart

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fiddle-fart

To waste time or procrastinate by doing something unproductive or unhelpful; to fool around or spend time idly. Would you quit fiddle-farting and give me a hand cleaning the house? I should have started this essay last week, but I've been fiddle-farting with my new video game console.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fiddle-fart

verb
See monkey-fart
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • any time means no time
  • any time
  • anytime
  • (it's) (a)bout time
  • about time
  • at all hours
  • at all hours (of the day and night)
  • about time too
  • any old time
  • ahead of your/its time
References in periodicals archive
"The Times was handed an exclusive, and they fiddle-farted it away," Jackson says.
Why did the L.A. Times go with troopergate