piss about/around

piss about/around
piss about/around [phrasal verb]
Brit informal + impolite
1 : to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious : to waste time

She didn't come all this way just to piss about.

Don't piss around with your health–see a doctor!

It's time we stopped pissing about [=fooling around] and got busy.

2 piss (someone) about/around : to be unfair or dishonest with (someone)

The sales clerk is pissing us around [=(US) jerking us around]–he keeps saying he'll help us, but we've been waiting for 20 minutes!

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Main Entry:piss

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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