fiddlesticks

As this bordered on sentiment, abhorred of realism, Severne muttered something that sounded like "fiddlesticks."

"Thought-transference, Fiddlesticks," we may hear him cry, in imagination.

"Fiddlesticks," and the colonel stepped out on the platform and down the steps.

To this his wife remarked, "Fiddlesticks," and began to feed Pershing from a nursing bottle.

“It is your Auntie fiddlesticks, Jimmy,” said I hastily, hoping my color was not heightened.