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screw around; potter; be busy with trifles; faff around (Anglophile); be busy with trifles | |||
fight the moonlight; beat a dead horse | |||
fuck | |||
milk a bull (You can pull and pull, but you can't milk a bull. VLZ_58); chase one's own tail (VLZ_58) | |||
do piffling jobs; busy oneself with piffling jobs; potter about; potter away | |||
seek a lost elephant in an earthen pot (george serebryakov); seek a hare in a hen's nest (george serebryakov) | |||
diddlybop; fooster (snowleopard); fanny about (Антонэл) | |||
fart around |
заниматься ерундой: 2 phrases in 2 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 1 |
Makarov | 1 |