horse around | Idiomator

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)To engage inhorseplay.Can we quithorsing aroundand get some work done?Stophorsing aroundwith the controls, before you break something.2014June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés inThey Came Together”, inThe A.V. Club‎[1], archived fromthe originalon7 December 2017:AsNorah Jonescoos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played byPaul RuddandAmy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, andhorsing aroundat a fruit stand.2015January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictionalhorsing aroundreflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.1989,Chris MathesonandEd Solomon,Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure(script)"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keephorsing around.1943,Ted W. Lawson,Bob Considine,Thirty Seconds over Tokyo:I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quackhorsed aroundwith my leg.

Examples:

EN: I came right away, just yelled in to her I was going as they brought the horse around.
ES: No tuvo tiempo. Les grité que me iba y salí corriendo.
EN: Listen, boy, don't horse around with me.
ES: No te burles de mí.
EN: - Turn that horse around.
ES: - Saca a ese caballo.
EN: Turn that three horse around, Jack, and take him in easy.
ES: Da vuelta al caballo N°3, y guíalo despacio.
EN: - You mean you can still bet on a horse around here?
ES: ¿O sea que todavía puedes apostar a un caballo por aquí?
EN: It was one summer, and I had this friend George Bastian... and we had a habit of every Saturday afternoon... sometimes Sundays, to go over in the park and horse around.
ES: Era verano y los sábados mi amigo George Bastian y yo solíamos ir a dar una vuelta por Central Park.
EN: Not at all. If there's something wrong with our kids, you don't have to horse around. You can...
ES: Padre Dineen, si cree que no sirven, no ande con rodeos...
EN: Don't horse around.
ES: ¿A qué viene esa broma?
EN: Mind if I horse around with it?
ES: ¿Te molesta si la toco?
EN: While I was there, these men... kind of guests, you might say... we'd get together and horse around a little bit and sing... 'cause we were havin' such a good time... and we always had a lot of fun with this one, "The Jailhouse Rock." And we always had a lot of fun with this one, "The Jailhouse Rock."
ES: Ahí, estos hombres... podríamos llamarlos invitados... nos reuniamos para bailar y cantar... porque la estábamos pasando tan bien... y siempre nos divertimos mucho con esta:
EN: Say, boys, you can bring Miss Dennis' horse around now!
ES: Ya, chicos, ¡pueden traer el caballo de la Srta. Dennis ahora!
EN: Sure,horse around at inopportune moments.
ES: Y comprendo que no es el momento para agradar.
EN: You just turn that horse around and head out from underneath this covered bridge right now. - I'll bet that cooled his heels.
ES: Apuesto a que eso lo calmó.
EN: Lady, I quit thinking when I turned my horse around.
ES: -Señora, sólo pienso en mi caballo.
EN: My advice is turn the horse around and ride back where you belong.
ES: Mi consejo es que des la vuelta y regreses donde debes estar.

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