futz around

"I was far out in space, and my teachers were futzing around with one hundred miles up.

Whatever your preferred method, you'd just like it to work without any futzing around, right?

By the time we were done futzing around, they'd pulled out for a scheduled patrol.

A woman of about forty was futzing around with a rucksack.

She was futzing around in the kitchen, as usual.

Other people can futz around with our stuff, but we should remain true to the original conception and then bring it up to today's style.

Windows - it's more like 2 or 3 days of futzing around before it's ready.

I like the shops, and if I want to kill an afternoon just futzing around, it's great.

I futzed around with some commands before I nailed it.

"The colony moved into the Belt back in 2112, but for nearly a century they just futzed around getting nowhere.

Still, she keeps half her living room cleared, "so I can just futz around in there from time to time."

"And recently, I just decided we should stop futzing around and get it back up where it belongs."

Bush administration officials are still futzing around with organizational charts and allowing turf battles to go on "as though nothing had happened," they write.

"My ear training came in a very organic way, just from futzing around, singing with my dad at the piano."

They'll futz around for a while when I don't farspeak back tomorrow night.

It was getting time to stop futzing around with FogBugz 4.0 and start working on 5.0.

"So you futz around blowing cigar smoke while making melodramatic pronouncements.

I wonder how many hours Britons waste futzing around with their Pcs?

You can futz around all you want in the year 2059, but when you're a Courier you need to maintain a sense of perspective.

If you are running a business, it's nice not to have to futz around with hardware failures and software installs/patching.

If you're a professional photographer you have time to "futz around" with RAW conversion.

There's not as much blocking to remember, you really can't futz around too much, and it sort of distills everything in a way.

"Let's not futz around with this."

Truth was, I'd been futzing around under the engine block because I couldn't stand to look at the damage done to my baby's roof anymore.

Then futz around with letters."