mess around with
Example Sentences
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“We have an ironclad rule at IMAX, which is that our word is our word and we won’t mess around with that,” the CEO said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
That's where the treasure is, when you can mess around with that edge and see where it is.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2024
“Not dangerous in a way of threatening people but dangerous in the way of: You don’t mess around with her.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023
Plenty of series mess around with television’s narrative structures or genre conventions, but this show is willing to break the most basic visual conventions of how you put humans together onscreen.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2023
“Gods and goddesses may occasionally help, but they don’t mess around with affairs that affect only humans. To them, mortal lives are but a speck of dust on the eyelash.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
