waste time

English

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

piss away, about, or around (vulgar); faff about, piddle around, about, or away (British, idiomatic); dick around (American, vulgar)

Terms derived from waste time

allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner

Arabic: ضَيَّعَ اَلْوَقْت‎ (ḍayyaʿa l-waqt)
Armenian: ժամանակ վատնել (žamanak vatnel)
Catalan: perdre temps (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 嘥時間, 嘥时间 (saai¹ si⁴ gaan³)

Mandarin: 浪費時間, 浪费时间 (làngfèi shíjiān)
Czech: plýtvat časem, mrhat časem
Dutch: tijd verspillen
Finnish: hukata aikaa, haaskata aikaa
French: perdre son temps (fr)
Galician: enredar, perder o tempo
German: Zeit vergeuden

Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Italian: perdere tempo
Japanese: 時間を無駄に過ごす (じかんをむだにすごす, jikan o muda ni sugosu)
Korean: 시간을 소비하다 (siganeul sobihada)
Polish: tracić czas
Portuguese: perder tempo
Russian: теря́ть вре́мя impf (terjátʹ vrémja)
Spanish: perder el tiempo (es), perecear (es), pelar la pava (es) (Spain, colloquial)
Swedish: spilla tid, ödsla tid, förspilla tid
Turkish: zaman öldürmek (tr), vakit geçirmek (tr), vakit öldürmek (tr), zaman geçirmek
Vietnamese: tốn thì giờ (chẳng ra gì)

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