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
"All diplomacy since the Treaty of Utrecht seems to me to be fiddle-faddle, and the country rewarded the great man who made that treaty by an attainder."
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
