Sentence examples for bugger about from inspiring English sources
"Bugger about" is an informal phrase which is considered to be inappropriate in many contexts
For example, in a professional setting, it shouldn't be used. In informal, spoken contexts, you could use the phrase in an expression of frustration or disbelief, such as "Why are you buggering about? Let's get to the point!"
"I don't know why you'd bugger about with grapes when you can make a perfectly good wine out of potato peelings," the father says.
But if I need a quick chip-fix, then I'm not going to bugger about with triple cooked.
For a start, it's not Germany's fault Holland started to bugger about in an attempt to "humiliate" the Germans for the crimes of world war two.
This game's gonna make for a great Facebook album!" about 10 minutes in @geech_on_tour "bugger" about 10 seconds from full-time Contribs?
Jamie Oliver was all over the ads, trying to get us to buy Sainsbury's mince pies, but then turned up on Jamie's Family Christmas airily suggesting we bugger about making our own strudel!
I'm almost 32, and I can't be buggering about, not if I want to have any hair whatsoever in the wedding pictures.
The moment of brotherhood did not last, however, as Norrell proceeded to make the whole lot disappear, including those copies at John Murray's publishing house, much to the consternation of Murray himself (an underused John Sessions) and poor, voiceless Mr Tantony, who'd once more travelled down from Nottinghamshire with Mr Gatcombe only to be royally buggered about again by magicians.
I wandered down to the local shop, and mumbled something about cigarettes, and was served: it wasn't until a day or two later that I realised my speech had become a bit buggered-about-with as well.
Stop buggering about and take it.
The screenplay is rich with Thomas's humour, wit and general buggering about.
He and his dramaturg, Ben Power, offer the term "intervention" to describe their work, though Mr Goold has also referred to it as "conceptual buggering about".
