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stand around |
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stand around to wait around, standing; to loiter. Please don't stand around. Get busy! Why are all these people standing around doing nothing? stand around to stay in one place doing little or nothing After the fire was put out, most of the fire fighters left, and the few remaining just seemed to be standing around. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They don't SELL this hot water; no, you go into the great Trinkhalle, and stand around, first on one foot and then on the other, while two or three young girls sit pottering at some sort of ladylike sewing-work in your neighborhood and can't seem to see you --polite as three-dollar clerks in government offices. The losers could only stand around with their hands in their pockets and look on. ``Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe,'' said the gallant Outlaw, stepping forward, ``my assurances can add nothing to those of our sovereign; yet, let me say somewhat proudly, that of men who have suffered much, he hath not truer subjects than those who now stand around him. |
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