fiddle-faddle
/ˈfɪd(ə)lfad(ə)l
/noun [mass noun]
Trivial matters; nonsense.There is, however, a glue that holds all this fiddle-faddle together and gives it a certain inner logic....
- And what is all that fiddle-faddle about the door sticking just by getting shut all the way?
verb [no object]
Mess about; fuss: you haven’t time to fiddle-faddle about like that...
- We shouldn't fiddle-faddle around with the Samurai-Cons on the loose.
- It's easier to stop at fast food restaurants than fiddle faddle around and make breakfast?
Origin
Late 16th century: reduplication of fiddle.
- have (or add) another string to one's bow
- have (or be on) a short fuse
- have (or eat) someone for breakfast
- have (or gain) the upper hand
- have (or get) a foot in the door
- have (or get) a leg-up on
- have (or get) itchy feet
- have (or get)one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) one's snout (or nose) in the trough
- have (or get) someone/thing taped
- have (or get) something down to a fine art
- have (or give) it large
- have (or have grown) whiskers
- have (or hold) no terrors for someone
- have (or hold) someone in the palm of one's hand
- have (or keep) an ear to the ground
- have (or keep) one's eye on
- have (or keep) one's finger on the pulse
- have (or keep) one's (or both) feet on the ground
- have (or keep) one's wits about one
- have (or know) all the answers
- have (or put) one's heart in
- have (or put) someone/thing down as
- have (or take) a butcher's
- have (or take) a leak