What Is The Origin Of (190)?...
What Is The Origin Of (190)?…
Faffing about
Since I joined the serried and ever-increasing ranks of the baby-boomer retirees I can be accused of spending more and more time faffing about. By this I mean that I spend time on ineffectual activities which don’t really get anywhere. About can be replaced by the adverb around – the sense is the same.
It is very much a colloquial idiom, with very few examples to be found in…
View On WordPress









