fiddle around

To keep touching or trying to fix something without doing it properly, or to waste time.

"We've been fiddling around for an hour — can we please just make a decision?"

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will be how to fiddle around with genes so

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First of all, you try— you fiddle around yourself,

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To cut somebody open or fiddle around in their beating

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play around with the buttons, fiddle around with the N64 controller.

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Jordan B Peterson · 109:11

know fiddle around with the dial okay so I'm I'm

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