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fool away

Idioms  
  1. Squander, waste money or time, as in He was fooling away the entire afternoon. [Early 1600s] Also see fool around, def. 2.


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You haven't," said Jeff, rather curtly, "for me to fool away.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice

"Say, if you've got anything to tell, out with it, for I can't fool away my time with you."

From Down the Slope by Otis, James

Well, come along with you, I’ve no time to fool away here.”

From Zero the Slaver A Romance of Equatorial Africa by Fletcher, Lawrence

"Never had any of my own to fool away."

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

The starter won't fool away much time with those ... there they go now!

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett)

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