fiddle-faddle
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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.
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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
I should like to know what we have in common with that little fiddle-faddle Dresden china clock and shepherdesses upon the mantel-piece!
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
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 am idly fiddle-faddling with a piece of work, and Roger—is it possible?—is stretching out his hand toward a book.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
Ye gods, and when it was flowing, Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!
From Amours De Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough
I was still fiddle-faddling with the girth strap, the better to impose upon my Indian horse-guards, when suddenly there arose a yelling hubbub of laughter in the camp behind.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
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
