Faff

Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.

God it must be a faff having to get nigh-on naked every time your bladder runneth over, and imagine how much worse it must be if you only have a 20-second break to run off stage to the loo.

Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks on said portal.

The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.

The show is a carefully curated manifesto of “social success without faff”.

She's in a total faff about tonight's dinner party.

Stop Faffing And Just Do It