stirring beans 

Doing something to look busy and important, but accomplishing nothing.

When a district manager comes in to Ryan's Steakhouse and hangs around the salad bar "stirring beans"

When creating an Ebay ad for your business you spend hours worrying about what color your background color will be or finding just the right sound effect. That would be "stirring beans"

stirring beans by David Shedlock December 30, 2008

stirrin the beans 

Verb. The act of one sexually slapping the testes portion of the male genitalia

"What'd you and Rick do last night?" "Oh we stayed In, were just stirrin the beans"

stirrin the beans by Beanstirrer April 22, 2017