What is "fiddle around"

Usage examples of "fiddle around".

At least they had the luxury of surplus horses, or did if Gus and Jake hadn't contrived to fiddle around and lose them.

I gave most of the Smoke Ring's life forms trilateral symmetry, with plenty of room for evolution to fiddle around.

He came down to fiddle around, you might say, over the shininess of my turbines and the dripping of my oil, and I let him have his way with only a word or two dropped about his nose being a bit long.

We're free to fiddle around any way we like so long as we don't make a lot of noise.

I can go to different pubs and clubs, leave the answering machine on, go out more, stay in more, fiddle around with my social compasses and draw a new circle of friends (and anyway, my friends are never her friends, whoever she might be), avoid all contact with disapproving parents.

He didn't fiddle around with jockeying his ship into the new groove.

The card game was still in progress, and the mechanic continued to fiddle around with the engine.

Fezzik let the man in black fiddle around for a bit, tested the man’.

Fergus got so lazy that his only activity (short of those necessary to sustain life) was once a week to fiddle around at the kitchen sink with dry cells, retorts, alembics, salt solutions.

While I was waiting I started to fiddle around with the combination wheel on one of the filing cabinets.

To be honest, we thought we'd want to fiddle around with the result.

The regular analysts, just starting to arrive for a day's work, would fiddle around with that.