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muck about

忙于

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    British slang

    • : to waste time; misbehave
    • : to interfere with, annoy, or waste the time of

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Examples

  • If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

  • He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

  • Thus far, the most talked-about Green Friday hotspot is Denver dispensary the Grass Station.

  • After a long day of him wading and me watching him in the muck, cocktails were required.

  • A former talked-about, maybe-presidential candidate, Andrew Cuomo now hints at Hillary for president at his own re-election event.

  • These stories by a round-about way, gathering in circumstantial detail as they travelled, had reached his sister.

  • Roly was inclined to wait for developments, but as the call to "muck-muck" was now heard on the shore, he also withdrew.

  • A few carbine and musket shots, from the knoll and house, soon brought them to a halt, and sent them to the right-about.

  • A commotion, a squeal, a thrashing-about near at hand caused both to turn suddenly.

  • Even your dirty paper, Waldemar, wouldn't rake that kind of muck up after ten years.