lollygag

lollygag around

To waste time idly or aimlessly (some place); to loiter or loaf around (some place). You've been lollygagging around the house for the whole weekend—go play outside or something! Would you two quit lollygagging around and give me a hand?
See also: around, lollygag
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lollygag (around)

to loaf; to loiter. How can I get my work done with you lollygagging around? I spent my vacation just lollygagging.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • around (one's) ears
  • find way around
  • flock around
  • flock around (someone or something)
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • bomb around
  • crap around
  • crowd around
  • crowd around (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
My springer could lollygag as well as anyone, but every once in a while he would stand up, stretch and then walk calmly to the edge of the dock and jump in the lake.
To get that many bushels you didn't lollygag around.
Children exit a bus and lollygag past simple homes.
Then, you know, lollygag around until it's 3 o'clock.
The "happy-to-be-near-you" type will lollygag along, tripping your every other step and will wind up about as useful at bird finding as a full-choke shotgun loaded with double-aught buckshot is at shooting them.
Brecht and Piscator, and lollygag with Gropius in a Bauhaus.
This is the kind of book someone writes when she wants to write about herself but can't because (1) she was brought up a girl and girls aren't supposed to be self-centered; (2) she was brought up in the working class, and working-class people are supposed to do real work, not lollygag about; and (3) she is an art historian.
Part of the solution, Lightman says, is to use "something called 'divergent thinking' the ability to explore a problem in a spontaneous and nonorderly manner" that mind-wandering, let-your-subconscious-chew-on-it thinking that "lollygags."
In his later years pup might need another food that suits the needs of an older dog that mostly lollygags around, rather than hunting hard for several months each year.
This item's partially knitted owner lollygags around, reapplying his lipstick in a Mylar mirror like a feminist Olympia and enjoying himself and a nudie calendar--which seems to be open to Mr.
The nearby creek lollygags off round the next bend talking to itself.