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
To stand about and moon over it, and wonder or care what people would say, was all fiddle-faddle, and all sensible people would call it so.
From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 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
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
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
And I've no enmity against all manner of fiddle-faddling, if folks have got nothin' better to do.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
