fiddle about

Er, you've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah, did you tell Ken?

Size in a snail simply meant additional nuances of flavor and more to eat with a lot less fiddling about.

Someone creeping into the room and fiddling about on the window-seat!

I made notes, fiddled about, hummed with contentment, clarified the vision.

A bit strained, that's all, but one always wonders when a man starts fiddling about with his Will.

She sat simply, relaxed, without fiddling about, and the Colonel Doctor admired that in anyone, especially in a woman.

No, if he was human, there would be no need for all this secrecy and fiddling about.

She can hear him fiddling about, looking for the keys, tying his shoes, sighing, before the door opens.

In a minute he half turned, fiddling about on the table, saying: 'I see you've hogged the last of the ice.

Not even by chance, fiddling about.