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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fool away

"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 James Otis

If maidenkind be pure of mind, industrious, tidy, smart, What need that they should fool away their youth upon Delsarte?

From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field

I realized then how stupidly I used to fool away a lot of time that I was paid for.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

It knew it had no time to fool away, and all through the long, dark night, whenever, a locomotive hailed it, it just screamed, ‘Pacific Express!’ and kept on.

From Christmas Every Day and Other Stories by William Dean Howells

"What d'ye mean, fool away my time, Mr. Seiden?"

From The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

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