Sentence examples for pissing about from inspiring English sources
Clearly, then, the message from The Hague today is simple: you can kill and rape and mutilate as much as you like, but if you really want to gain a purchase on early 21st-century western discourse and are not simply pissing about, you do need to have once had contact with a celebrity in some incredibly minor way.
"Stop pissing about," he says, "and go to bed".
There, no one can understand him when he says: "I ain't pissing about".
It doesn't just mean pissing about on the mixer while a few bored, uncomfortable, socially challenged blokes stand on different parts of the dancefloor, heads down, waiting for another DJ to turn up so they can stand slightly closer to other people on the dancefloor.
Should Sinn Féin stop pissing about and start sending their elected MPs to actually sit at Westminster?
He illustrates: "Kevin Spacey likes to joke and piss about and do impersonations right up to the moment of action, on his mobile phone to his agent or whatever.
The main cast decamps to Sofia – a place still trying on capitalism like an itchy pair of new pants – as a unit for five weeks at a time, and the kinship of a travelling circus has formed; a willingness to do whatever's necessary to get the laugh, to keep each other's spirits up, to piss about during uncomfortable, cold and often arduous shooting days.
"If we also had other tourists, then British visitors who piss about all the time would not be as noticeable.
Nevertheless, in some quarters he was still dismissed as a clever clogs who pisses about.
