fiddle around

ˈfɪdəl əˈraʊnd
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Translation of fiddle around into Russian

Phrasal verb

intr.
1.

waste time

UK
spend time doing unimportant things
UK
  • He likes to fiddle around instead of working.Он любит возиться вместо работы.
2.

manipulation

UK
manipulate or tamper with something
UK
  • She fiddled around with the settings on her computer to improve its speed..Она возилась с настройками на своем компьютере, чтобы улучшить его скорость
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Expressions with fiddle around: examples in English and translations in Russian

возиться
ковыряться
She fiddled around with the radio until it worked.

Synonyms and analogies of fiddle around in English

Examples of fiddle around in a sentence

  • He spent the afternoon fiddling around with his gadgets.
  • He likes to fiddle around with old radios.
  • Don't fiddle around with the lock, it's fragile.

Translations of "fiddle around" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Verb
возитьсяv. - vozit'sya

He likes to fiddle around with old bicycles, fixing and repainting them.

Он любит возиться со старыми велосипедами, чинить их и перекрашивать.

We shouldn't fiddle around with the company files without proper permission.

Мы не должны возиться с файлами компании без должного разрешения.

поигратьсяv. - poigrat'sya

While I waited for the bus, I decided to fiddle around with my keys.

Пока ждал автобуса, я решил поиграться с ключами.

To get the Dropbox service to work, we had to fiddle around with the NAS' settings.

Чтобы заставить сервис Dropbox работать, нам пришлось поиграться с настройками NAS.

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Other translations for fiddle around:

  • тратят время впустую
  • тратить время впустую на

fiddle around: Examples and translations in context

She loves to fiddle around with her hair, creating different styles every day.

Она любит возиться со своими волосами, создавая разнообразные прически каждый день.

He would often fiddle around with the clock, trying to get it to keep time.

Он часто возился с часами, стараясь заставить их идти правильно.

I saw him fiddle around with the controls of the drone before it took off.

Я видел, как он возился с контроллерами дрона перед взлетом.

She tends to fiddle around with her makeup before heading out to parties.

Она склонна возиться с косметикой перед выходом на вечеринки.

He would fiddle around with his guitar, hoping to write a new song.

Он возился с гитарой, надеясь сочинить новую песню.

But it should greatly reduce the number of times that you need to fiddle around on the back for the fingerprint scanner.

Но это должно значительно сократить количество раз, когда вам нужно возиться на задней панели сканера отпечатков пальцев.

There are some plumbing problems that you should ideally not fiddle around with and leave completely to the plumber.

Есть некоторые проблемы с сантехникой, с которыми вы, в идеале, не должны возиться с и оставить полностью водопроводчику.

He liked to fiddle around With computer parts in his garage.

Он любил возиться у себя в гараже, перебирая компьютер.

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