fiddling

It was around this time that Eddie, who had built his own home studio, started listening to a lot of orchestral music, and began fiddling around with riffs played on his Oberheim OB-xa keyboard.

Sunak said it was clear the prime minister had “opened the door to raising employer national insurance contributions, including on pensions, and fiddling the figures so he can borrow more”.

Some see this as a new version of the apocryphal story of Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

Mom was back, fiddling with the phone like she was nervous.

It’s sometimes an unnerving story of neglect, decay, financial fiddling, outright vandalism — of tombstones moved and muddled and lost — of bodies brutally exhumed by flood and mud or forgotten and paved over.