fiddle-faddle
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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
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
“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
Come, Sister Annot, leave that minikin fiddle-faddle, and come and help with the real work.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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
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
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
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 W. Boucher
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
