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| screw around; potter (to wander about doing small jobs or doing nothing important); 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 | |||
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заниматься ерундой : 2 phrases in 2 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Makarov | 1 |