meddle with someone or something
- meddle with someone or something
meddle with someone or something
to interfere with someone or something; to mess around with someone or something. •
Please don't meddle with me. I am in a bad mood.
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Would you please stop meddling with my computer?
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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