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单词 the devil rides on a fiddle-stick
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the devil rides on a fiddle-stick
1. The bow strung with horsehair with which the fiddle is played. the devil rides on a fiddle-stick: = here's a fine commotion.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > bow
fiddlestick14..
archon1480
stick?1570
bow1580
archet1640
arco1740
fiddle-bow1827
violin-bow1858
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase]
on steerc1480
the devil to paya1500
in (an) uproar1548
the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598
in motion1598
the devil (and all) to doa1681
(all) the fat is in the fire1797
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 693 Hic arculus, fydylstyk.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 493 The Deuil rides vpon a fiddle sticke . View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 106 I lent you indeed my Fiddle, but not my Fiddlestick . View more context for this quotation
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 400 Johnson: Give him a fiddle and a fiddle-stick, and he can do nothing.
1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure (1843) 210 I might as well inquire whether the fiddle or the fiddle-stick makes the tune.
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