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fool about
vb. (context intransitive English) to fool around
Usage examples of "fool about".
I think you should teR the Fool about our time among the Old Blood.
I think you should tell the Fool about our time among the Old Blood.
Was the fool about to intimidate him with talk of supernatural vengeance?
She glared around her as though looking for a drunken fool about to do just that.
They fool about with boats on that big river - and that isn't natural.
And if Myrrh of Guthrie was serious about the Reception and Dance scheduled for that same evening there was surely no time to fool about.