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Discover Ludwig"arse about" is a commonly used phrase in spoken English and can also be used in informal written English.
It means to behave in a silly or foolish manner. Example sentence: "Stop arsing about and help me with this project."
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arse about
verb
To turn round.
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It's all arse about face.
It is also – forgive the expression – arse about tit.
"Why would any Indian voter give a rat's arse about Mr Krishna's biotech policy?" wonders Mr Bhide.
I mean, I don't mean to be an arse about this, but who's being prudish now?
But in this context arse about face is positively lese-majesty.
If the world was run with rules alone, we'd all be arse about tit.
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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.
In fact the orthodoxy is arse-about.
Which for mine is arse-about.
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.
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