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
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Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle.
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Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of fiddle-faddle.
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“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
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Hon'ble Sir, and you will see how transcendentally superior are even such poor effusions compared to the fiddle-faddle and gim-crack style of article with which you are being fobbed off by puzzle-headed and self-opiniated nincompoops.
From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.