Preposition 'About' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To about'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Mope about' means...

Do something without thinking carefully

Move around being miserable

Waste time

'Go about' means...

Continue to do something; keep busy with something

Sleep somewhere less comfortable than normal

Ignore, pay little attention

'Toss about' means...

Decide or realise that something is good or profitable

Try to communicate and establish good relations with people

Discuss something freely and openly, but not very seriously

'Doss about' means...

Spend time doing very little or being unproductive

Close a claim for unemployment benefit

Be sent

'Slob about' means...

Be lazy, do nothing

Bring or force into use

Produce a result or situation

'Fart about' means...

Waste time doing silly things

Start going towards a place

Arrive at work, school, home

'Wait about' means...

Wait somewhere doing nothing

Raise a child

Make something happen earlier than originally planned

'Float about' means...

Visit

Be somewhere near, though not visible

To stop functioning.

'Sit about' means...

Invite someone

Make someone enter somewhere quickly

Sit and do nothing, especially when you should be working

'Fiddle about' means...

Waste time doing silly things, or doing things unsuccessfully

Try to include something discreetly when speaking

Accept eagerly

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