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Or, at least, measures that I can understand the wisdom and sense in their implementing - but would rather not have to contend (faff about) with myself.— Eurogamer
Prime Ministers faff about on foreign trips, insisting that there is no crisis.— Telegraph Blogs
A lot of the songs on the album are more 'epic ballad' than generic rock song; which we have seen fellow rockers Shinedown adopt on their latest album too; and with many of the songs pushing four minutes; the guys have time to faff around making it sounds all pretty.— Entertainment - Female First
However as many buyers may not know, the Transformer Vac has no rolling beater brush making thread and hair pick up difficult unless you faff about with changing it to a hand held part of its design, fish out the extension pipes and push on the pet hair turbo brush.— Epinions Recent Content for Home
So they will continue to fiddle and faff about while Rome, Madrid, Dublin and Berlin burn.— Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha

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