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

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