muck around

• Verbe à particule signifiant passer du temps à faire des choses inutiles ou stupides, ou ne rien faire de productif.

A phrasal verb used to indicate behaving in a silly or unproductive way, or to waste time by doing something aimlessly.

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, sans objet

1. Waste time or be idleinformalbritish

   To spend time doing things that are not useful or productive; to mess about.

   Perdre son temps

   • Stop mucking around and get to work.
   • The kids were mucking around in the garden instead of doing their homework.
   • We mucked around for an hour before deciding what to do.

   Synonymesdawdledilly-dallyfool aroundhang aroundidleloiterlollygagmess aroundputter

   Antonymeslaborstrivetoilwork

2. Interfere or tamperinformalbritish

   To handle or adjust something in a careless or unskilled way, often causing problems.

   Tripoter / trafiquer

   • Who's been mucking around with the thermostat?
   • Don't muck around with the settings on my computer.
   • He mucked around with the engine and now it won't start.

   Synonymesmeddlemess aroundtampertinker

   Antonymesadjustcarecorrectfixhandlemanagerepairtend

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