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Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | Finnish term or phrase: hörhöillä | | " Perheen kuopuksena juoksin aina muiden sisarten perässä. Olin aina se joukon viimeinen, joka jäi hörhöilemään ja jonka annettiin tehdä niin." |
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| | English translation:muck about | Explanation:
muck about or around
1. to waste time by misbehaving or being silly
2. muck about with to interfere with, annoy, or waste the time
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muck around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly;
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Note added at 16 hrs (2008-07-23 05:14:44 GMT)
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muck about vs. mess around..
In my opinion "hörhöillä" deserves a more peculiar translation than mess around. Muck about/muck around are commonly used in the UK with children, e.g. in Manchester you hear it in everyday language from parents' mouths "don't muck about!" (or the synonym "stop faffing about!") and it has no negative connotations, on the contrary a "mucker" is a mate (friend) "all right, me old mucker?" :) |
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  Juhana Valtonen
Local time: 01:14
| Grading comment Yes, British children certainly do muck about! Thanks.
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