The phrase "an arse about this" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal and somewhat vulgar.
It can be used to express frustration or annoyance about a situation or issue that seems to be handled poorly or in a confusing manner.
Example: "I can't believe how complicated they've made this process; they're really being an arse about this."
Alternatives: "making a fuss over this" or "being difficult about this".
Some parents interpret this as an arse-about order of business – a decision to close followed by a consultation about closure.
We'd like to get in and defibrillate the guy…' "I occasionally get into discussions with astrologers but I don't want to be an arse about it.
Did The Avengers (or "Avengers Assemble", if you want to be an arse about it) really need to be converted to 3D? Does Baz Luhrmann's take on The Great Gatsby, out later this year, really need to be in 3D?
I might feel an arse about it now, but at the time I thought anywhere with a Master Otter had to be cool - and when you come here, although giant otters are nowhere to be seen, there's a complete sense that it, and other fantastical things, could easily roam behind these twisted, mossy branches, or in the rush-upholstered fields.
Although he insists his succession of quirky roles was a "total accident", he admits that "arsing about and being silly" have always appealed to him as a performer.
Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
You're mild-to-medium arsed about this.
More than half of it is just exposition – Savile being interviewed about his life by an arse-licking This Is Your Life-style host, facts courtesy of Wikipedia and biographies.
Patiently, wisely, Adam explained how you could currently get far longer in prison for, say, punching someone because of their chosen religion rather than punching someone for what their body has chosen to do to them, a quite remarkable arse-about-titness of priorities.
And if that little detail doesn't betray the arse-about-titness of the way this country has been doing business for decades, then heaven knows what will.
