muck around


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Verb1.muck around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idlymuck around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
monkey around, muck about, potter, mess around, tinker, monkey, putter
puddle - mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint"
work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"
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WHEEL 'em in - that's the message for Charnwood Borough Council's Don't Muck Around campaign this year.
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We're not going to muck around. There's no point in taking weeks when he and England need a decision faster than that."
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"I'm not too sure what the Glasgow coaches have got planned for me but I want to prove that I'm here to play, not to muck around.
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"I'm not here to muck around, I'm not here to kid anyone.
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"You have to be really good to be able to muck around that much.
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We'll just be batting as well as we can." Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja is in no mood to muck around, saying: "We've got to take their last wicket quickly and the runs that are left to score, 50-55 or whatever, get them."
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