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Examples of fiddling
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Who wants to be stuck fiddling with equipment when they should be cutting a rug?
From the omaha.com
Has anybody ever tried fiddling with his stuff on a changeover to mess with him?
From the telegraph.co.uk
Addressing these challenges is more complex than fiddling with the top tax rate.
From the timesunion.com
His entertaining fiddling was legendary among fur-traders, settlers and Indians.
From the dailyherald.com
Duo fiddling is one of the most difficult yet invigorating devices in bluegrass.
From the orlandosentinel.com
In the case of Barclays, two very different sorts of rate fiddling have emerged.
From the economist.com
Fiddling with clay court materials is likely to change the game in some respect.
From the economist.com
So, in my case, it was inevitable that I wrote a number of poems about fiddling.
From the denverpost.com
Allandbeavis on test fiddling in New York is very interesting, to put it mildly.
From the guardian.co.uk
- (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving ...
- (fiddle) avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"
- (fiddle) violin: bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
- (fiddle) commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"
- (fiddle) play the violin or fiddle
- (fiddle) toy: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate"
- (fiddle) tamper: play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts"
- The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, usually the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music.
- (Fiddle (film)) Fiddle is a 2010 Malayalam film directed by Prabhakaran Muthana starring Varun J. Thilak.
