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"text": "Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?",
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"ref": "2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07",
"text": "As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.",
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"ref": "2015 January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, in The Guardian",
"text": "A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.",
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"ref": "1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)",
"text": "\"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt.\"\nBut Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around."
},
{
"ref": "1943, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo",
"text": "I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.",
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"(intransitive, idiomatic) To fiddle or play; to clown; to do nothing of consequence or importance."
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"sense": "behave clownishly, idly",
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"text": "As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.",
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"ref": "2015 January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, in The Guardian",
"text": "A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)",
"text": "\"Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt.\"\nBut Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around."
},
{
"ref": "1943, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo",
"text": "I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.",
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