muck around
Verb
Meaning
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.
I'm surrounded by the beach, so I love to fish and to dive and to swim. I walk a lot, and I bike around. I hang out at the beach, really, and muck around.
Poetry was a meeting of mind and heart, I felt at one with poetry itself. I like the concentrated language, the play with form, and the way you can muck around with words in a way that you can't in a novel. Poetry allows you to be intense, because to some degree people expect it.
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house