moon about BrE informal
moon around BrE informal

I've got more important things to do than moon about my lack of a love life.

"You think we have time to waste on your mooning about?"

He's over the moon about that painting I sent him."

I'd guess that we would reach the Moon about an hour early."

Pen had yet to find the courage to speak to Moon about it.

The Member States will not exactly be over the moon about all of this.

Once there was to be an eclipse of the moon about two o'clock in the morning.

"Take that trip south you keep mooning about," she said.

She was still mooning about the theatre, gazing at him.

He loved to moon about the harbour talking to the natives.

As the lecture ended, he resolved to ask Moon about that at an appropriate moment.

Yes, you've certainly scored a winner this month, folks, I hope you're over the moon about it!

One-Eye could promise the moon about taking care of them but would he deliver?

George mooned about looking so angry and miserable that her mother felt worried.

One rainy morning Diana was mooning about, getting in her busy mother's way.

Observers on earth saw the full moon about to occlude a bright new star.

He really must stop this mooning about and get on with the job, or he'd be sitting here for the next twelvemonth.

And Tony is over the moon about her.

You've been mooning about for a few weeks,' she chuckled, ruefully.

I mooned about the house, not getting on well with writing, nor for that matter with reading.

I had often heard Jeff mooning about after her, despairing that she was out of his reach.

After a while, whatever you're mooning about begins to seem like some elaborate adult invention.

They seemed to like mooning about all alone.

Her parents are over the moon about it."

Not everyone is over the moon about rezoning.

The last thing he'd wanted to do was moon around over something he couldn't have.

But there was no point in mooning around until then.

We're lucky when we see the full Moon around here."

Never has her friends here, spends a lot of time just mooning around.

Unless you've thought of a good reason for moving moons around."

Goes up there every night and moons around looking dramatic."

We used to laugh about how you mooned around her thinking she was so pure.

"It was trailing one of the moons around the seventh planet."

Twice the probe followed the moon around the planet, always keeping position on its far side.

They've been mooning around each other for two years.

He looked Elizabeth Moon around for a chair, and sat.

"Actually, he started mooning around here two months ago, and we've gone out for a lunch a few times.

"There are plenty of moons around the gas giant itself.

That year, astronomers discovered first one new moon around Uranus and then three more, giving it a 21 to 18 lead.

The Tongan calendar are based on the cycles of the moon around the earth in one year.

Her face glowed like a moon around eyes blacker than coals.

Most people loitered outside in the warm rain, mooning around until something happened, but of course, nothing did.

He went a mooning around, first to one rat-hole and then another, till he'd been to them all.

Anyway, he didn't know as he had any license to moon around her.

"You may just as well occupy yourself use fully as moon around out of doors."

Mark was deeply in puppy love with Emma and mooned around her every chance he got.

You can moon around with your ancient astronaut all you want when we get a work camp set up.

"Well, you're not pretty," she told herself, "and you never ever will be, so stop mooning around.

Galileo, after all, did not know that his little telescope would give him a glimpse of those moons around Jupiter.

He mooned around the city carrying flowers, and threw himself at the feet of actresses.