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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fool about" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone is playing around or behaving in a silly manner. For example, "The children were fooling about in the park."
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fool about
verb
To fool around
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You can fool about with giant mushrooms or feel your nose growing longer, like Pinocchio.
Chums since primary school, they hug and fool about together, teaming up for the Adam and the Ants-indebted Ruins before turning in the spirited, Swedish-themed party-song Va Fan Gör Du.
You can fool about with it".
He was such a fool about it all that he was hard to defend.
He plays a song he has written, "Three Times a Fool," about love.
When I see Linklater, I gush like a fool about "Waking Life" -- I just don't care!
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She too complained to floor staff but "her complaint was brushed aside with the explanation that that was 'just Jimmy fooling about'," writes Smith in the leaked report.
That wasn't even on my mind when I was fooling about, because no one talked about it, but there you have it.
We shouldn't fool ourselves about that.
Do not let the final score Sunday fool you about how that went.
Do not let their humble name fool you about the way they will pursue their beliefs.
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