fiddle-faddle
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Vocalist Waters and a gifted arrangement turn a ballad hitherto sung as funny fiddle-faddle into a tragic folk tale, with much the same quality found in Artist Thomas Benton's garish Frankie & Johnnie mural.
From Time Magazine Archive
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ll bet you my whole store it’s a matter of time before everyone starts buying cheap fiddle-faddle from SmartMart rather than paying a little more for something from their own neighbors.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
He might indeed have been well designated as "a fiddle-faddle bit of sterling."
From Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
He acknowledges the time wasted "fiddle-faddling" and, with pathetic bravery, declares that he "will not cling to her falsely."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2011
I was still fiddle-faddling with the girth strap, the better to impose upon my Indian horse-guards, when suddenly there arose a yelling hubbub of laughter in the camp behind.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
Why don’t you attend to your fishing instead of fiddle-faddling with that revolver?
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.
You knew she wasn't all right this morning, yet you had to go fiddle-faddling with that architect instead of staying at home where you belonged.
From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert
I shall stop fiddle-faddling and settle the business which delays me here, at one stroke.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Curtis, Wardon Allan
