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fiddle

verb as in mess with, tinker

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Beckett was famously unforgiving when it came to fiddling with his works; his estate would not likely countenance egregious diversions from the “Godot” text.

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“The Details” is a crucial moment on the album, an acknowledgment, with a dour fiddle and harp, that communication may be forever broken.

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You simply cannot fiddle around with part-time bowlers for 10 overs; nor can you bowl them very late in the innings.

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There’s a high and lonesome fiddle sounding the alarm, before a gloriously defiant harmony vocal: “I’m a hard headed woman . . . and I don’t owe ya sh*t.”

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She enjoys baking and once said she would love to learn the fiddle and play country music.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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