prat about/around
UK informal— phrasal verb with prat uk/præt/us/præt/verb -tt-
to behave stupidly, especially when you should be behaving in a responsible way:
Stop pratting around and get on with your work!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- mess around
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- spectacle
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