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Discover Ludwig"larking about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when someone is fooling around in a playful and mischievous way. For example, "The children were larking about in the park until it started to rain."
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Of larking about, as the Brits say.
MILAN — Children larking about, looking like wild kids — except for their shiny puffa jackets.
One had brought his sons, and the boys, in parkas, were larking about on the chairs.
Their giddy enthusiasm is best seen when they're on stage, larking about at enormous volume.
Since then, he has spent the huge period of 15 years just larking about in non-wealth creating activity".
It takes another two hours for them to enact it again, time mostly spent larking about and showing off.
Perhaps in deference to Richard Lester's Beatles film A Hard Day's Night, Spurlock includes plenty of scenes of the five band members larking about behind-the-scenes.
"We can't just drift on with uncertainty because our own British politics is causing us to keep larking about," he said.
There's loads of banter and larking about, but as the game gets closer his personality changes and as he gets more serious everything falls into line.
Not larking about with a pint or pie-eyed on a pedalo this time, because this is Freddie Flintoff: Hidden Side of Sport (BBC1).
The documentary film that shows the men larking about, simulating a stabbing and speaking in disgusting racist terms does not prove that they killed Stephen Lawrence.
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