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"mess about" Definitions
  1. (British English) to treat somebody in an unfair and annoying way, especially by changing your mind a lot or not doing what you said you would
"mess about" Synonyms
joke clown jest fool around clown around horse around lark about play the fool be silly play for laughs mess around act the goat act the jennet act the maggot fool about muck about footle around footle about play the giddy goat muck around carry on misbehave behave badly make mischief act up be bad be mischievous be naughty cause trouble act foolishly cause a commotion cause a fuss clown about create act the clown act the fool trifle with dally with flirt with play with toy with treat casually treat frivolously treat lightly amuse oneself with palter with sport with wanton with treat in a cavalier fashion play ducks and drakes with play fast and loose with fool with fool kid act fake feign pretend sham banter chaff fun gag jape jive jolly josh mess quip tease tinker monkey play toy dabble fiddle fiddle with meddle potter adjust slightly dabble with doodle fix interfere interfere with meddle with tamper alter change damage doctor monkey around trifle adjust deface harm vandalise(UK) vandalize(US) fiddle about fiddle around frolic sport caper romp frisk gambol cavort have fun relax rest revel amuse oneself dally rollick skylark carouse entertain oneself faff about hesitate waver vacillate shilly-shally faff around falter teeter haver procrastinate fluctuate swither oscillate dawdle stagger wobble balance hang back wabble lollygag fanny fritter footle fribble muck piddle puddle potter about potter around fanny about fanny around lounge laze loaf idle loll lazy bum chill dillydally drone futz hang about kick around goof off kick back veg out More
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28 Sentences With "mess about"

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"I didn't get to mess about and be a university kid, but I get to mess about now," he said.
And that's how this game really doesn't mess about in motoring into its narrative.
Contrast that with firing Comey, where there's nowhere near the same mess about why he did it.
In Britain, there's no need to mess about with raw fish or use chopsticks when three mojitos deep.
They have to learn to not mess about with the meat – which actually requires skill and experience to do.
As a bonus, it's a chance to hear Payne's amazing laugh again as her kids mess about with the masks.
The people who wrote the questions for James Corden's "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts" segment really don't mess about.
She notes that parents often aren't taken seriously if they aren't "a paranoid mess" about their children's well-being 100% of the time.
It's an added convenience, bringing all of that functionality directly to iMessage, rather than having to mess about with a third-party app.
It doesn't mess about: "Gaming Journalism is a Joke" leaves little to the imagination in terms of where the next four minutes are headed.
Do I attempt to alleviate some of this mess about black death by writing through it in public, as I'm wont to do when stuff needs working through?
And it doesn't mess about in revealing these powers—Quantum Break wants you to experiment with your arsenal as soon as possible, holding little back for unlocking later in the game.
The 2014 U.S. Open champion had already wrapped up two sets when rain set in on Friday and he was clearly in no mood to mess about on a blustery Court 12.
It takes less than 30 seconds for Argentina to find Messi, and it's clear already the Nigerians have been instructed not to mess about: they immediately drop all 10 field players behind the ball.
The English National Ballet and Royal Ballet versions are no exception to the choreographic desire to mess about, even if they do keep the period setting of a prosperous 19th-century German household and the basic structure of the plot.
Perhaps the feline musings and antics will appeal to very young children, but the grown-up side of the plot, a phallic mess about which of two companies can build the tallest building in North America, will lose youngsters unless they are preternaturally knowledgeable about boardroom warfare and what it means to take a private company public.
To me, Man of Steel was a grimdark mess about how maybe Earth is too judgmental or inherently evil for heroes, but it needs them anyway — hence leaning extra-hard on the Christ imagery, except for the part where our Jesus-substitute destroys a city full of people because he can't figure out that taking the fight to space would save lives.
Nor that the even less tolerable Father John Misty had Macaulay Culkin "crucified" by Ronald McDonald clowns in a recent music video for "Total Entertainment Forever," ending up as some hamfisted, No Logo-inspired mess about corporations and technology and sacrilege that only a guy who ranted at a festival crowd for 20 minutes about the banality of entertainment before storming off stage would ever feel comfortable delivering.
The video is dispersed with them singing at their respective rides, scenes where they mess about at Coney Island, with their song playing over them, and them singing directly to the camera as a group.
There is no need ... to mess about." Two days later, in another broadcast, he said that dead mujaheedin "are calling you and shouting to you from far distant places: al jihad, al jihad. They say to you my dear Muslim brothers, 'Where is your weapon, where is your weapon?' Come on to the jihad.
A messabout is an event where a group of people get together to discuss and "mess about" in boats. The concept is not new but the name is. The term originated in April 1990 when Joe Tribulato organized the first such event with this name. This was the beginning of the Southern California Small Boat Messabout Society, SCSBMS.
" In response, Jay replied: "Don't mess about, where's the rest of the body?" Nilsen responded calmly, admitting that the remainder of the body could be found in two plastic bags in a nearby wardrobe, from which DCI Jay and his colleagues noted the overpowering smell of decomposition emanated. The officers did not open the cupboard, but asked Nilsen whether there were any other body parts to be found, to which Nilsen replied: "It's a long story; it goes back a long time. I'll tell you everything.
They will not have any trouble paying for their chase, considering Homer has borrowed Ned Flanders' credit card and Bart has borrowed Rod Flanders' credit card. Meanwhile, in Miami, Grampa finds companionship with an old man named Raúl who responds by turning his hearing aid off. Homer and Marge finally find themselves at the Niagara Falls, only to find the children are already there. When Bart and Lisa confront them, they agree to let them mess about in the room, making them even more despondent.
Greenwood remembers Benjamin's unique approach to keeping his young pupils attentive: > "If you were foolish enough to horse about, he'd bowl at you, coming in off > just one yard and fire down the fastest ball you ever faced. He would then > walk down the wicket, and, in a lazy West Indian drawl, say, "Don't mess > about in my net sessions"." Michael Vaughan, in his autobiography, gives credit to a "scary" time spent facing Benjamin in the nets, as formative in his development in facing fast bowlers. Aged 14, Vaughan made the first team at Sheffield Collegiate, for whom Benjamin also played.
These live UK gigs often featured celebrated live sound engineer Chrys Lindop, and included the infamous comedy track 'She Moved The Dishes First', which Donnelly claims they wrote so they could mess about a bit while the band were replacing broken guitar strings. This track also achieved notoriety when it was picked up and played regularly by Radio Caroline. Meanwhile, back in the UK, although their record sales were disappointing, Supercharge still managed to achieve a reputation as one of the UK's best live bands. This included Supercharge's opening set for Queen at the 1976 Hyde Park Festival.
"With so much torque from literally no revs the acceleration punch is wholly alien. Away from traffic lights you'd murder anything, be it a 911 Turbo, GT-R or 599, simply because while they have to mess about with balancing revs and clutch, or fiddle with launch controls and invalid warranties, all you have to do is floor the throttle and wave goodbye". In December 2009, The Wall Street Journal editor Joseph White conducted an extended test-drive and determined that "you can have enormous fun within the legal speed limit as you whoosh around unsuspecting Camry drivers, zapping from 40 to 60 miles per hour in two seconds while the startled victims eat your electric dust". White praised the car's environmental efficiency but said consumer demand reflected not the environmental attributes of the car but its performance.
Music Show began her second season in the Nell Gwyn Stakes (a major trial race for the 1000 Guineas) over seven furlongs at Newmarket in April. She started second favourite behind Atasari in an eleven-runner field and as in her previous races she was held up in the early running before making a strong late run. She went to the front approaching the last furlong and was "driven out" by Fallon to win by half a length from Blue Maiden. Mick Channon commented "You would have to be pleased with that as she has got very lazy this year and I wanted to get a run into her... I have always thought she had a lot of class and Kieren didn't mess about – he knew what he had under him". Ryan Moore took over for the filly's next three races starting with the 2010 1000 Guineas on 2 May in which she started the 7/1 third favourite.
Travers 1987, pp. 15–16. Smith-Dorrien annoyed French – with whom he had still been on relatively cordial terms at the end of the South African War – by abolishing the pickets which trawled the streets for drunk soldiers, by more than doubling the number of playing fields available to the men, by cutting down trees, and by building new and better barracks. On 21 August 1909 he lectured all his cavalry officers – in the 16th Lancers’ messabout the importance of improving their men's musketry. By 1910 the feud between French and Smith-Dorrien was common knowledge throughout the Army. Smith-Dorrien objected to French’s womanising, a fact which Richard Holmes attributes in part to Smith-Dorrien being happily married to a young and pretty wife, and French’s nephew later claimed to have overheard "a ferocious exchange" between them, in which Smith-Dorrien declared "Too many whores around your headquarters, Field-Marshal".

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