Sentence examples for faffing about from inspiring English sources

But you're not, which means the Director's Cut ultimately amounts to faffing about, albeit faffing about of the most exquisite kind.

But there was an extraordinary amount of faffing about, apparently, over Wenger's boutonnières.

Ronaldo takes the ball off Hamann, who is faffing about, and then bedlam.

Lord Patten blamed Chinese-style bureacracy and PR chaos for the crisis and said the executive was "frantically faffing about".

And I watch men in suits faffing about, blabbering, not wanting to look bad in the eyes of other people.

And far from just faffing about on his keyboard, he and fellow Simian, James Anthony Shaw, have lined up some killer cameos.

Clive Davidson, a bluff, gregarious South African, has never faffed about, whatever that might mean.

Well, Adam faffs about, changing nappies, smoking his e-cigs, electrocuting people, hatching hopeless profit-making plans – all adorably, obviously.

The thing I love about the Italian approach to cooking is that, at heart, it's so damned simple: take a few decent ingredients, don't faff about with them, whack them on a plate and tuck in.

Most players would get the ball under control with a touch or two, but Messi doesn't faff about, driving immediately down the inside-left channel towards the area, checking on its edge, and pulling the ball across for Toure, who sends a low shot this far wide left.

He lays off to Torres, who faffs about.