0 present participle of swan UK informal disapproving
They are swanning around out there instead of being in here.
That was the cost of swanning along on the gondolas.
The penance is being borne by the unemployed of the country while the people responsible are swanning on.
That would not be appropriate, because there would be potentially millions of free licences swanning around the country, possibly because of errors in the database.
Is it to go swanning in the country?
This practice on the part of civil servants may be perfectly justified, but it appears to the man on the spot to be "swanning" without any excuse at all.
There is a myth, which is widely fostered in the press, that business executives are swanning around at company expense in luxury cars which are loaded with every conceivable gadget.
A little earlier in his speech he said that we must not pursue a world-wide blue water role, as he put it: "swanning around in a silver sea".
