Idioms

doss around

doss around

To waste time; to shirk one's work or responsibility by doing something unproductive. Primarily heard in UK. There's no way we'll get this project finished on time if everyone keeps dossing about like this! I should have been working on my paper all weekend long, but instead, I just dossed about playing videogames. Would you quit dossing around with that old radio? You're never gonna get it to work again!
See also: around, doss
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References in periodicals archive
You can just doss around away from it all, or go mad for it, like the locals do.
We don't just doss around. We work hard and sometimes you want people to see that." And Merson, who twice offered his resignation last season, has no inclination to repeat those knee-jerk reactions after confirming he is doing the job WITHOUT a contract Merson feels that the job is worth more than a piece a paper - and that the downside is getting easier to stomach.
You give us education, all we do is get drunk at university, then doss around the world before settling back in the bosom of our parent's comfy abode.
This movie is about a group of us with loads of money, who kinda doss around."
A Touch Of Frost's laid-back attitude to life meant she was happy to doss around at the back of the field for the first six runs of her career, but the fitting of blinkers and a switch to more forcing tactics saw a big improvement.
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