fiddle-faddle
拈花惹草,摇摆不定,摇头摆尾,摇头晃脑
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Definitions
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- : nonsense.
- : something trivial.
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fid·dle-fad·dled, fid·dle-fad·dling.
- : to fuss with trifles.
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Examples
On Wall Street, Bank of America plays a perpetual second fiddle to JPMorgan Chase Co., the only U.S. bank that holds more assets.
"He looked at it and he started to fiddle with the cable," Mrs. Perez told The Telegraph.
Willie Polk played the fiddle and another boy, call him Shoefus, played the guitar, like I did.
His dad, an electrical engineer, was always bringing home technology that the young Sapan would fiddle with.
There the lingua franca is Cajun French, and folks love to fiddle, dance and most of all, eat.
Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan."
Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
Fiddle-cases seem to have been used almost solely for travelling purposes.
Then you'll concide that you are there but you oughtn't to be, and kind of slide out without your hat and forget your fiddle.