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
Here is none of the literary indolence by which nine out of ten works are disfigured, nor the fiddle-faddle notes which some folks must have written in their dreams.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 by Various
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
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
And I've no enmity against all manner of fiddle-faddling, if folks have got nothin' better to do.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
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
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
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