waste time

waste time (third-person singular simple present wastes time, present participle wasting time, simple past and past participle wasted time)

1. To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
   • 1973, “Sad Song”, in Berlin, performed by Lou Reed:

     I'm gonna stop wastin' my time / Somebody else would have broken both of her arms

   • 2006, Matt Bellamy (lyrics and music), “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:

     Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

• dally; dawdle; faff about, fiddle about, piddle around, about, or away (British, idiomatic); piss away, about, or around (vulgar); dick around (American, vulgar), fiddlefart, fiddlefuck, goof off, slack off, fuck around, fanny about, fritter, screw around

• time-waste