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fiddle-faddle

/fid-l-fad-l/US // ˈfɪd lˌfæd l //UK // (ˈfɪdəlˌfædəl) //

拈花惹草,摇摆不定,摇头摆尾,摇头晃脑

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n.名词 noun
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    • : nonsense.
    • : something trivial.
v.无主动词 verb
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    fid·dle-fad·dled, fid·dle-fad·dling.

    • : to fuss with trifles.
interj.感叹词 interjection
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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.