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Meanings of monkey around in English
Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.
Synonyms
Examples for "monkey"
Examples for "monkey"
1
He took the child away and put the monkey in its place.
2
We must go lower down in the animal scale, to the monkey.
3
Soon the monkey learned how to sell wild chickens in the market.
4
The monkey climbed to the roof of the house and sat there.
5
Albert became waterboy; Earl was powder monkey, in charge of all blasting.
1
In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both.
2
The ancient potter employed woven fabrics in handling, finishing, and decorating pottery.
3
For a while the Quarantine Commission had charge of the potter's fields.
4
He wouldn't potter about in a garden excavating the pedestals of statues.
5
And now it will be broken in pieces like a potter's vessel.
1
A few days earlier, Taborlin had met a tinker on the road.
2
Could be one of the children that came with that tinker family.
3
If there had been a massacre the tinker would certainly have heard.
4
Yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed he would never tinker with superannuation.
5
They all tinker with our sense of time, space, and one another.
1
Tick tock, the time is nigh for advocates of the long putter.
2
A lot of that I learned through putting with a longer putter.
3
She laid down the putter and fingered the balls for a moment.
4
We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.
5
On his game he is long and straight and a nerveless putter.
1
The health and safety rules are not something you mess around with.
2
Don't mess around trying to save money by making the product cheaper.
3
Toward the end, Luther let me mess around on my off hours.
4
I go home now, mess around, listen to music, make some clothes.
5
Morgan, I don't think we can mess around too much over there.
1
This ancient world was just too dangerous to muck about in.
2
I mean you can only muck about so much can't you?
3
He was feeling the icy muck about his numbed legs.
4
He just wanted to blast them at the net or muck about playing keepy-uppy.
5
Such as flushing out prey so that I needn't muck about in such filth.
1
Scattered in the muck around it she'd seen lumps of calcium carbonate: chalk.
2
Necromancy is the practice of using magic to muck around with dead things.
3
When it comes to jaw-dropping beaches -Australia doesn't muck around.
4
Once I'd popped the question Kate didn't muck around.
5
She got off on it, happy to muck around in the trash, the wet squelch.
Usage of monkey around in English
1
We don't want to stop to monkey around in the dark.
2
And I suppose you can, for you always liked to monkey around with words.
3
I'd heap rather sleep in the bed with a rattler than monkey around with conjur.
4
One of the always wore a live monkey around the neck instead of a fur piece.
5
However badly we may do it, patriotism demands that we monkey around with a garden of our own.
6
Don't monkey around about it.
7
Even if you are a V10 climber, you still need something to monkey around on and get the blood flowing.
8
Pulling down on the grip cams the head firmly against the wall, creating a stable bar to match and monkey around on.
9
I tell Jed, every day, that I won't have the monkey around any longer, but I always give in and let him stay.
10
I monkey around with the Tense Operator for ten years and right when it starts breaking down is when I have to bring it in.
11
That's the only place the Russians are monkeying around in South America.
12
I'd find anyone scary who's monkeying around with forces beyond their comprehension.
13
No oddballs monkeying around, thinking it's funny to screw up my shots.
14
You really shouldn't have monkeyed around with Hannah's design without consulting her .
15
Kids take them out on leads, and even carry baby monkeys around in nappies.
16
God help the feller that monkeys around that hen roost.