(1) Go and buy this medicine and return as quick as possible. Please do not hang about. Go directly to pharmacy.
(2) I don't like hanging about with friends.
(3) I don't like hanging out with friends.
Please correct my sentences. Also please tell me what's the differenc in meaning between 2nd and 3rd sentence in regard to "hang about" and "hang out".
Top answer
They are all fine apart from the missing "the" in front of pharmacy. There is no difference between #2 and #3.
— Feebs11
They are all fine apart from the missing "the" in front of pharmacy.
There is no difference between #2 and #3.
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