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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Example Sentences

I wasn't goin' to fool away the firm's money.

From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various

You fool away the whole morning, spoil the whole patch with yer lazy tricks, thinkin’ I wouldn’t see ’em, then let the stock in to eat up the seed I’ve paid fer.

From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.

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 Howells, William Dean

Think of the time men fool away chasing calico.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen

I for one protest against it so strongly that if your committee agree to it and do not push party endorsement, I must decline to fool away my time in Kansas.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted