stand around
Verb
Meaning
stand around
Synonym of wait around
Synonyms
Examples
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
We can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen.
[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you.
Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.
What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true.