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faff about | мудохаться (Britain, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity. She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast. I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done. VLZ_58) |
faff about | дурью маяться (To waste time doing unnecessary things – LONGMAN Anglophile) |
fall about laughing | попадать со смеху (When I read out the details to the family, we all fell about laughing. – мы все попадали со смеху ART Vancouver) |
getting about | передвижение (Lavrin) |
getting about | перемещение (=move around, move from place to place=getiing around ; to travel to a lot of places. Ex.: Spain last week and Germany this week – he gets about, doesn't he!: (US) Lavrin) |
it's about blinking time, too! | давно пора! (Anglophile) |
lark about | проказничать (Anglophile) |
loon about | вести себя раскрепощенно (Loon about is British slang for to behave in an uninhibited, light−hearted manner. lingomash.com suburbian) |
loon about | веселиться (suburbian) |
mess about | околачиваться ("There was a church in this village and behind the church was a small wooded area and fields, where we used to generally mess about and have a sneaky beer or two." mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver) |
mess about | возиться (with; с машиной и т.п. Anglophile) |
mess about with | возиться с (kids messing about with their toy cars ART Vancouver) |
mess about with | заниматься (чем-либо ART Vancouver) |
ponce about | выпендриваться (Anglophile) |
slop about | расплескать (There, don't slop it about! ART Vancouver) |
wander about | бродить по (I was wandering about the garden when I saw Eddie sitting on a bench. ART Vancouver) |