sod about
sod around

Come on, we've got more important things to do than sod about here.

His fellow citizens had never given a sod about him.

"We've got too much on at the moment to sod about with Snell.

To get back in his good books I need a quick confession and no sodding about."

"We haven't got time to sod about, miss," he snapped.

It saves all that sodding about getting a warrant."

"When you've finished sodding about up there, what about talking to us or aren't the victims important any more?"

I'm not sodding about with it if it's a try-on."

It'll save everyone a lot of sodding about."

They're all sodding about at that fire.

We've got you to rights so we don't give a sod about all your lies that you know nothing about it.

Fluoroacetamide should do the trick, no sodding about with pre-baiting.

He didn't give a sod about me."

'I don't give a sod about that,' said Adam.

The 1967 song Sodding About by The Who has fuzz bass.

"Don't sod about," said Frost.

He don't sod about."

I don't believe he gives a sod about what he did to Jackson: it's the death of Anne Scott that he'll have on his conscience for ever.'

Charles Richards, as she thinks, doesn't give a sod about her any longer: just at the time when she desperately needs a friend, he can't even fork out an envelope and stamp.

I am not in any mood for sodding around, playing games, going by rules.

"You have more time to prepare the spot," he said, "to make sure there's no loose sod around, to get your thoughts together."

Building a structure at ground level and piling rocks, earth, and/or sod around and over it.

"I'm tired, I've been up half the night and I'm not in the mood for any more sodding around.

Shrieking, he clawed at the loosening sod around him, his feet already being swept downstream by the greedy current.

Sod stretcher--A tool used to stretch sod around a corner.

Outside the mall, landscapers have laid the last strips of green sod around tulip and daffodil beds that edge parking lots for 9,000 cars.

McCarter's weapon rattled off another burst and dropped the shooter where he stood, his last rounds churning sod around his feet as he collapsed.

Outside, Richard Abrahamson, a floral designer, was adding a few more feet of sod around the white metal gazebo he had put together with Ms. Ward.

It wasn't much in terms of cover, with bullets shredding canvas as if it were tissue paper, chewing up the sod around him, whistling over Bolan's head.

The news of Mr. Randall's late fatherhood - and that of other celebrity SODs around the same time - evoked a fair amount of tut-tutting.

They have enough knowledge of magic to keep Spiderwick alive for nearly 100 years, they keep Stray Sods around their forest so humans cannot reach it, and they somehow employ Byron to take Spiderwick to his family.