fucking about
Aimless foolish behavior
Fucking about is the British equivalent of fucking around—wasting time, being unproductive, or behaving irresponsibly.
Stop fucking about and get to work.
It can also mean engaging in casual sexual encounters or meddling with something you shouldn't: He's been fucking about with the thermostat again.
- arsing aroundIdling unproductively
- dawdlingLeisurely time-wasting
- jokingSaying things in fun
- muddlingConfusedly mixing up
- fritteringWasting gradually, carelessly
shirking · skylarking · procrastinating · clowning · bungling · dilly-dallying · loafing · dicking around · farting around · goofing off · malingering · messing around · floundering · idling · horsing around · slacking · disarraying · scrambling
purposefulness
fucking aboutbuckling down
Applying oneself with determination
getting down to business · concentrating · applying oneself · knuckling down · grinding