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
Beyond that, the system is mired in bureaucratic inertia and fiddle-faddle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Huston soon puts a stop to this sort of 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
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 Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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
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.
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 MacDonald, George
All right now," Old Stone Face said crisply, in his low, rumbling voice, "no fiddle-faddling around.
From Sense from Thought Divide by Dongen, H. R. van
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
