英语词组fool around是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

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fool around

释义

Idiom

fool around (with someone or something)

Theme: ANNOYANCE

to fiddle, play, or mess with someone or something; to waste time with someone or something. (Informal.)

John is out fooling around with his friends again.That child spends most of his time fooling around.Please don't fool around with the light switch. You'll break it.There are lots of interesting things in here, but you must leave them alone. Don t fool around.

Idiom

fool around

to waste time doing something without a particular purpose.

It was a serious academic school, not a place to fool around.

Usage notes: often used in the negative to mean to not waste time but to act with a serious purpose:

The coach was in no mood to fool around, and the team knew it.

I've had to reorganize, redefine, & separate "fool around" from "fool around with sth" and "with sb" orig. combined in 2 entries, as the objects differ; also "mess around" etc.--SL, 12/02

Related vocabulary: fuck around

Phr V

fool around

fools, fooling, fooled

fool about/around

to spend time having fun or behaving in a silly way

We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.

often + with

You should never fool about with matches.

to have a sexual relationship with someone who is not your usual sexual partnerusually + with

She's fooling around with someone at work.

fool around

verb to have a casual sexual relationship US, 1937

phrasefool around1. fool around/about to behave in a silly way for fun: We used to fool around a lot in class. a picture of the royal couple fooling around on the ski slopes Stop fooling about, will you! I'm trying to work!■ SIMILAR TO: mess around/about informal, muck about/around BrE informal2. fool around/about to use something in a careless way that is often dangerous+ with The fire was started by some children who were fooling about with matches.■ SIMILAR TO: play, mess around/about informal3. fool around/about to have a short sexual relationship with someone else, when you already have a boyfriend or girlfriend, or you are already married - used to show disapproval+ with He found she'd been fooling around with another man, so he shot her.■ SIMILAR TO: play around/about4. fool around • fool around sth AmE informal to go around a place, especially in a car, on a bicycle etc: There was a time when Gary Cooper fooled around town in a green Bentley Corniche. She fools around on a bicycle in her jeans.5. fool around AmE informal to waste time doing unnecessary things, or do something much too slowly, especially when you should be doing something else: We have to go to Cost Co by five and he's just fooling around!■ SIMILAR TO: mess around/about informal, faff about/around BrE informal

fool around

1. To play or tinker with something, often in an aimless manner. Hey, don't fool around with the thermostat—it needs to stay at 68 degrees. Grandpa's still fooling around with that old radio, but I doubt he'll get it to work again.

2. To engage in aimless recreation or frivolous time-wasting. Quit fooling around with the dog and work on your book report already!

3. To have a casual sexual relationship with someone. Betsy and I are just fooling around, which is great because I don't want a serious relationship anyway.

4. To joke about something. Often used in the negative to indicate absolute seriousness. Oh, come on, Tina, we're just fooling around. We didn't mean it. You guys, Mom is not fooling around. She said she would ground us for a month if she caught us again.

fool around

to waste time doing something unnecessary or doing something amateurishly. Stop fooling around and clean your room as I told you. I wish you didn't spend so much time fooling around.

fool around

1. Also, monkey around. Engage in idle or casual activity, putter. For example, Jim loved to fool around with his computer, or She was monkeying around with some figures in hopes of balancing the budget. [Second half of 1800s]

2. Engage in frivolous activity, waste time. For example, Instead of studying, he spends all his spare time fooling around. Also see fool away.

3. Engage in flirting or casual sexual acts; also, engage in adultery. For example, He caught the two teenagers fooling around in the basement. [1830s]

fool around

1. Slang To engage in frivolous activity; goof off: The children are fooling around in the yard.

2. Slang fool around with To manipulate or work with something without a clear purpose; toy with something: Who's been fooling around with my briefcase?

3. Vulgar Slang To engage in casual, often promiscuous sexual activity.

4. Vulgar Slang To be sexually unfaithful.

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