faff about BrE slang
faff around BrE slang

Why is there a need to faff about with the clocks?

I would like to conclude by saying to all those who are likely to be the important players in the end game: do not faff about.

I guess there is no reason why we shouldn't faff about with the colour of our skin as well?

You do faff about!

Let them faff about and drag out the torturous missed signals, longing looks and brushed fingertips for a few seasons.

Have you got time to faff about waiting to see if they phone back or turn up when your child or elderly relative is really sick !!!

Don't faff about with anchovies - just adding a dash or two of anchovy sauce to the cream sauce makes all the difference and is more controllable.

It's a handy program for anyone who needs to send a large variety of business letters and who doesn't want to faff about thinking of the right thing to say.

I'll have five or six days to faff about SE England and don't want to spend the entire time in London (I've been to London many times).

And then everyone can go merrily on their way, until we become a bit more enlightened and send another patently foolish practice the same way as refusing to wear clothes of different fibres and/or all that faff about planting crops in different fields.

It really is a marvellous new feature if you've ever tried to do it in OSX and either lost data or had to faff about in the command line or with third-party apps Not that I know anyone that's ever done that.

The miles are incidental really, you wake up, faff around with everything and start the day.

Go for a cordless one if you don't want to faff around finding extension leads.

Most engineers prefer to get straight to the point and not to have to faff around using words that have little or no meaning.

Who wants to faff around with vouchers?

Tins and jars can be a quick, reliable alternative, and you don't have to faff around with soaking.

'We can't faff around forever,' he said.

It's for my first night in Cancun, so fresh off an international flight, I'd rather know I have somewhere booked for definate than to faff around finding somewhere on spec.

From Class A addictions such as the Angry Birds game to software that allows you to faff around on Twitter, apps have infinitely increased the ability of mobile phones during the past couple of years.

We also use Wuala (which does its own behind-the-scenes encryption of all files on client computers) at home, for those cases where we want backups but don't really want to faff around with encryption apps (my wife's use, for instance).