_:vb7483750 "1922 February, James Joyce, \u201C[Episode 12: Cyclops]\u201D, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 299:"@en . _:vb7483751 "[\u2026] up in London you arse around and go to the local and meet the boys and perhaps take in a flick, and then when you go to bed you find you\u2019ve spent a quid and wonder where in hell it went and what you got for it."@en . _:vb7483748 "(intransitive, slang) To behave in a clownish, irresponsible or inefficient manner."@en . _:vb7483752 "1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, \u2192ISBN, page 284:"@en . _:vb7483751 "1944, Nevil Shute, chapter 2, in Pastoral, London: Pan Books, published 1964:"@en . . _:vb7483749 "Quit arsing around and get to work!"@en . "1" . _:vb7483749 . _:vb7483750 . _:vb7483751 . _:vb7483752 . _:vb7483750 "Gob, he\u2019s not as green as he\u2019s cabbagelooking. Arsing around from one pub to another, leaving it to your honour, with old Giltrap\u2019s dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers and corporators."@en . _:vb7483748 . _:vb7483752 "It\u2019s part of a whole lot of home-movie stuff I\u2019ve just bought at Christie\u2019s. Most of it\u2019s too madly dull for words\u2014you know, gay young things arsing around with no shame."@en .