stand about

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

stand about/around phrasal verb [ stood about/around stood about/around stood about/around stands about/around standing about/around ]
to spend time standing somewhere and doing very little
• We stood around in the cold for about an hour, waiting for the demo to start.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Avoiding action ↑Laziness and lazy people ↑Sitting and standing
Main entry: stand_{phrasal verb}