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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'screwing around' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone being playful and having fun. For example, "We were just screwing around with some of the office supplies."
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That's someone's livelihood he's screwing around with there.
Sadly, the cure for screwing around turns out to be more screwing around, with the volume turned up.
"We'll start by screwing around and one of us'll come up with a voice," adds Chavez.
"Helen, there's got to be more to life than just screwing around," Linda says.
They punted as well as the genuine punting candidates today, but as Holmes said, "We were just screwing around".
If he starts screwing around with gun laws, I think the American people are going to flip out.
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I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
Stourton occasionally recognises that this logic could be reversed: "The more he screwed around, the more screwed up she got".
Although to screw around still suggests promiscuity, the substitution of up for around obliterates any sexual connotation.
Let's be honest: it's just not the sort of thing you want to screw around with.
"I think it manifests itself as an unwillingness to screw around, and an unwillingness to be heavy-handed.
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