goof off. So to goof off. All right. Let's look at the note here. If someone goofs

off , he or she spends time doing something or saying things or having fun

when they are supposed to be working hard or are supposed to be doing

serious work. Then we say somebody is just goofing off there.

Kind of like fooling around. Okay. Good. So let's look at some examples here. Example

number one. This is typically the way you would hear it. Stop goofing off. We need

to get serious and get this work done. Okay. Maybe again. Maybe somebody's

goofing off. They're fooling around just trying to have fun or number two here. The

boss fired him because he caught him goofing off several times. It could be.

Number three. Her son is often goofing off playing

video games rather than being a serious student. Yeah. Again. So again just having

fun fooling around you know, not doing what you're supposed to be doing. Not

working hard. We could also turn it into a noun and say a goof-off. You know with a

hyphen in the middle. Meaning a person who's a time-waster. You know, and just

fooling around. When I was looking at this, It always reminds me that we say ..

There used to be a Prince song and the very beginning of the Prince song just you

know, sums this up perfectly of what a goof-off is. It was as a song, a Prince song

called "Raspberry Beret" it's actually a good song , that's a good love song. But

this is how it starts. These are the first five or six lines of the song, and this

describes a person who is a goof-off and here it goes like this. I was working

part-time at a five-and-dime, my boss was Mr. McGee. All right. So when he's basically...

well part-time and a five-and-dime. We don't really have these anymore

they were stores that used to sell things cheap they would be call five and

dimes, originally from like five cents and ten cents. These stores are long gone. I

think turned into Woolworths, and I think even

most of them are gone. But they used to be a famous chain of stores that sold

things very , very cheaply. That had cheap things in it. So that's why it was called a

five-and-dime. Like for five cents and ten cents. Like our nickel or a dime. But

anyway, let's get back to this. I was working part-time in a five-and-dime, my boss

was MR. McGee. He told me several times that he didn't like my kind because I

was a bit too leisurely. Well a little too leisurely too relaxed too clam. You

know, taking it easy. He's something like that and then then

it continues with these lines Seems that I was busy doing something close to

nothing , but different than the day before.

Well again, this, this just sounds like a goof-off. You know somebody goes to work

and they're not really ambitious. They're not trying to work hard but sometimes

they try to look like they're busy doing something.

Even though just like this song. The line here says, I was busy doing something

close to nothing. You know , you may be the boss can see through this. That he's not

really doing anything. But he's pretending like he's doing something. So

but you know, I guess he could get paid and get by. Anyway, I hope you got it. I

hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.