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91Fiddle sticks — I have an old Aunt who is much too well mannered to swear. So when the need arises for a swear word, she will substitute fiddle sticks …
92fiddle — See: play second fiddle …
93fiddle\ with — v. phr. To carelessly play with something. If Jimmy continues to fiddle with our computer, he is liable to ruin it …
94fiddle while Rome burns — be concerned with relatively trivial matters while ignoring the serious events going on around one. → fiddle …
95fiddle-de-dee — noun dated nonsense. Origin C18: from fiddle + a reduplication without meaning …
96fiddle-faddle — noun trivial matters; nonsense. verb mess about. Origin C16: reduplication of fiddle …
97fiddle — I. n. Violin. II. v. n. 1. Play on a fiddle. 2. Trifle, dawdle, lose, time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time, fool away time …
98fiddle — 1. noun she played the fiddle Syn: violin, viola 2. verb 1) he fiddled with a coaster Syn: fidget, play, toy, twiddle, fuss, fool about/around; finger, thumb, handle; informal mess around/about 2) …
99fiddle — n 1. violin, viol, viola, cello; crowd or crwth. 2. fit as a fiddle healthy, in good health, sound, fit, robust, in fine fettle, Inf. in shape or in good shape v 3. twiddle; fuss with, fool with, toy with, play with, fidget with, finger; (of a… …
100fiddle-de-dee — interj. nonsense, stuff and nonsense, balderdash, hogwash, pish, pish and tush, pshaw, humbug, bah, poppycock, fiddle faddle, tommyrot, Inf. rot; All Sl. garbage, bunk, bosh, Brit. tosh, baloney, bushwa, bilge water, horsefeathers, moonshine,… …