dawdle (as in idle or waste time) v.i.: footle
[Usually used as “footle around”.]
[Hillman says] you can’t use accidents as a measure of danger. Name the safest form of transport, he commands. You footle around until he comes up with the answer, which is a heavy [truck] because if you’re driving one you’re unlikely to be killed in a crash. Now name the most dangerous. Answer: again a heavy [truck], because if one hits you, you’re pretty sure to be killed. (Anne Karpf, “A Chain Reaction: For 30 Years Mayer Hillman Has Been Busily Turning Conventional Political Thinking on Its Head,” Guardian [London], 11/2/2002.)
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