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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 147. The verb phrase today is to
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fart around. Okay. It is actually the word fart like somebody farts you know, fart. (farting sound)
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So we do use it as a verb phrase to fart around sometimes. All right. So let's look
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at the note here. If someone is farting around, he or she takes part in aimless
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recreation or wasting time by fooling around, especially the wasting time by
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fooling around. That's the way we often use it. It's definitely a very informal
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use. Let's continue here. Fart around though commonly used, is considered slang.
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Yeah. American slang. This is mostly in American English and could possibly be
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considered to be rude or offensive depending on the situation one uses it
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in. Yeah. I'm not too sure I'd use it in the office. Or I think it's mostly used
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among like some guys doing something. I don't know if I'd say it to a girl. Stop farting
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around it might sound weird. It is often used in a similar way that one is ... that
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someone is fooling around. So it really has almost nearly the same meaning and
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use as fooling around but sometimes people say farting around. I think
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actually has more humor to it though too. So if it is used it's sometimes used in
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a funny way. I don't know maybe when you fart you know you waste you waste energy.
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Waste gas. I don't know but they do use it usually kind of you know, in a funny
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way. So let's look at a couple of examples here. Example number one. Stop
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farting around with that video game. We need to get some work done. So it's very
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similar to the idea of stop fooling around with that video game. Or number
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two. Jim has been farting around all day and now we are behind schedule. So you
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can just as easily say Jim has been fooling around the whole day and now we
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are behind schedule too. Okay. Good and just a last note here .
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The origin of the word fart. It comes from the old
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Germanic language. Frata and eventually formed into fart today. Okay. Anyway, I
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hope you got it . I hope it was clear. I hope, I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-
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bye.
