单词	taradiddle
释义	taradiddle /ˈtarəˌdɪd(ə)l / (also tarradiddle) noun informal, chiefly British 1A petty lie: no sane person would make up such a taradiddle... Let us therefore avoid giving ear to a lot of taradiddles about our soldiers in the trenches. "I dare say my nephew told you a good many taradiddles in his time." A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay. 1.1 [mass noun] Pretentious nonsense: this taradiddle from him about his new radio show... Her tarradiddle was of a nature that is usually considered excusable - at least with grown-up people; but, nevertheless, she would have been nearer to perfection could she have confined herself to the truth. Origin Late 18th century: perhaps related to diddle. Rhymes paradiddle
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