fiddle-faddle
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Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
I know that I am not in the confidence of either party," said Mrs. Ricketts, bridling; "and I also know I am sincerely happy that my head is not crammed with such fiddle-faddle.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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
Don't fancy I am asking you to go fiddle-faddling about my wife again: I don't see how you can do that, after the way she has used you!
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
All right now," Old Stone Face said crisply, in his low, rumbling voice, "no fiddle-faddling around.
From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen
Ye gods, and when it was flowing, Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various
I shall stop fiddle-faddling and settle the business which delays me here, at one stroke.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
