moon around

moon around

To waste time idly, languidly, or aimlessly (in some place); to loiter or loaf around (some place). She's always been an introspective child, preferring to just moon around and contemplate the world rather than playing with other kids. Quit mooning around the house like that—go play outside or something!
See also: around, moon
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • crap around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • find way around
  • around (one's) ears
  • crowd around
  • crowd around (someone or something)
  • bomb around
  • go around and around
  • gaze around
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Examples of those 3D/VR learning objects or courseware that we have developed (Wang & Yeung, 2001) specifically for training science teachers include: A Problem on Uniform Motion and Acceleration, Basic Optics in 3D, Virtual Reality Crystal Lattices, The Earth and the Moon around the Sun, and Human Skull and interactive 3D molecules of some common chemical or biological substances.
These keep the earth in orbit around the sun, and the moon around the earth.
and Europe), we know that the full moon around that time must be the one which passes lowest across our sky.
For instance, during Dussehra, a festival celebrating the victory of good over evil which falls on the tenth day of the waxing moon around late September, Rama, seventh incarnation of God Vishnu and hero of the epic Ramayana, defeats Ravana, the demon king of Sri Lanka.
Wasps replacement Josh Bassett raced over for a late try only for the score to be disallowed after referee Matthew Carley decided, with help from the television match official, that Haskell had tackled Alex Moon around the neck.
Superficially, the cold (https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/3020/the-moon-with-the-plume/) Enceladus seems like it would not be a target for those researchers, but Cassini has sent back (http://www.ibtimes.com/there-life-saturns-moon-what-we-just-learned-about-enceladus-2561550) data indicating that the water originating in a subsurface ocean and jetting off the moon around its south pole is full of organic molecules and could be coming from a place where there is warmth.
The Met Office explained that the orbit of the moon around the Earth is elliptical, not circular, which causes a change in distance between the two.
The lunar method measures the rotation of the moon around the earth, 354 days for 12 revolutions.
"It's got bigger from the early days when we pulled the moon around on a horse and cart after raking it from the the Guillotine Bridge before the canal opened.
In 2006, a small team of astronomers led by Franck Marchis, astronomer at the Carl Sagan center of the SETI Institute, detected the presence of a small 12 km diameter moon around the large Trojan asteroid (624) Hektor.
There's a newfound moon around Neptune, Mark Showalter (SETI Institute) and his team announced July 15th.
Heller agrees that such moons should exist: "When I think of all the weird planets we've found--hot Jupiters, planets orbiting two stars--why shouldn't we be able to find a large moon around a gas planet?"
Theres no reason a Trojan moon couldnt lead or follow our moon around the Earth.
"Outdrink the other members and be the last man standing - which wasn't easy with keith Moon around." He adds: "We had an alcove at the Rainbow Bar in Los Angeles.
The Virgo Moon around today is rather fickle so things tend to be good one moment and not so good the next, and then back to being good again.