Meaning of horse around | Babel Free

Definitions

To engage in horseplay.

idiomatic, intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Can we quit⟳ horsing around and get⟳ some work⟳ done?”

“Stop⟳ horsing around with the controls, before you break⟳ something.”

“As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand⟳.”

“A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.”

“"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt⟳." But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep⟳ horsing around.”

“I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see⟳ to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.”

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