dawdle about

dawdle about

To waste time. If you want to get your allowance, quit dawdling about and do your chores!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dawdle about

to waste time in a place; to waste time talking idly. Don't dawdle about. Get moving. Tim has been dawdling about all morning.
See also: dawdle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • dawdle
  • dawdle over
  • dawdle along
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • pillow-biter
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
References in periodicals archive
How long will it take for small boys to realise that if they so much as look as if they are about to step into the road a driverless car will always stop, and if they dawdle about in the road the driverless car will slowly follow until they decide to get out of the way?
Practical jokes spell trouble on the road ahead
I'm sick of dodging dumbos who dawdle about, oblivious to others.
EARS TO RESPECTING OTHERS; SUNDAY PEOPLE ? APRIL 16, 2017 NEWS & FEATURES 23 rachael.bletchly@people.co.ukJUST SAYING! Rachael Bletchly