clown around
clown about

"Remember, your father said not to clown around too much."

The very next night, we're clowning around with the audience at the second show.

Too much clowning around and the Taken will get curious.

"They would save up their best Jewish jokes and clown around for him."

Bob was just really drunk and, you know, clowning around.

Forced out into the business circus, art has had to start clowning around.

He dressed in hip-hop clothes and liked to clown around.

There are pictures of them all clowning around after moot court.

The other guys were on the sofa, drinking, watching, and clowning around.

You clown around a little bit - any way that you can have them participate.

There are some people who will do just about anything for a chance to clown around in front of a TV camera.

"The audience is not coming to see a bunch of kids clowning around.

She is the stern type, while he's a big kid who loves clowning around.

Given half an excuse, she'll clown around and dance.

All the singing and clowning around by the servers does not make them more efficient.

Clowns don't clown around much, as time spent in their company reveals.

Some drum takes and a lot of clowning around.

"Now, will you two stop clowning around and get your pointy ears over here?"

Frank and I know that clowning around is hungry work."

She was just like he was; loud and clowning around.

Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying.

My first thought was teenagers clowning around in the street, not an unusual occurrence.

Ms. Field acknowledged there were some hazards to the clowning around.

Some may think McDonald's is clowning around with this design.

"Somebody's going to get hurt clowning around like this."

This was not so much a service as a lot of clowning about to biblical themes.

Two performers get very wet clowning about as the first spots of rain turn to a flood.

"Theatre's not just a few people clowning about on a stage, being watched by this herd of oxen.

They point to her independence and her bright spirit as she clowns about finding her "sweet little brother."

I think that's quite enough clowning about now, Ruth, Jaxom said, trying to sound stern.

Laughter cracked around the gathering pile of driftwood, and bodies clowned about in dim silhouette.

"No clowning about it.

I ended up des- perately clowning about my genuine bewilderment.

Since then he has often talked with the clowns about his anger and sadness, and joins in their performances wearing white-face and a wig.

His clowning about cheesy 1980s culture is only intermittently amusing, but whenever he immerses himself in the esoterica of alternative music the book improves.

But there was nothing of the clown about him as he switched off the set and said: "Look - like I told you: we just have to go ahead.

'No, sir,' replied Bob, With no remains of the clown about him, save and except the extreme redness of his cheeks.

At one point, Kim is placed on a gurney with the clown about to slice him with a scalpel when his hand is stopped by The Doctor.

Under the Angier lamps, the night was pleasantly cool and there were knots of surfers clowning about in the parking area, bottles and pipes in hand.

CLOWNING ABOUT - there was plenty of fun during the staff open day.

He would crack jokes with the mechanics, lay bets on races, clown about in masks from other plays, to let us all know he thought as well of himself as ever.

With relative stillness this week from the White House, the Hill, Kenneth Starr's office, and the world of international diplomacy (excepting Ireland, unfortunately), the commentariat must clown about to keep the crowd's attention.

To clown about people who assemble a credible case for worrying about America's future, calling their concerns "windbaggery," befits the Harvard Lampoon, not the newspaper that ran a thoughtful editorial on Medicare, Mr. Peterson's central topic, on the same day.

Crush then engaged in a feud with Doink the Clown, after he was attacked with a loaded prosthetic arm while confronting the clown about his cruel pranks on children at ringside, which caused Crush to miss the Royal Rumble.