fiddle-faddling

WATCHING Kellen's rapt excited face as he spoke of Verlin's fiddle-faddling, Idalia blessed the old Centaur for staying behind to play here tonight.

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

I want to apologise to the villagers - particularly the non-residents, so to speak, who keep getting these updates for a book they're not interested in and will never ever read - for these fiddle-faddling thousand and two-thousand word updates on their fpages.

May 16th, 2008 2008

WATCHING Kellen's rapt excited face as he spoke of Verlin's fiddle-faddling, Idalia blessed the old Centaur for staying behind to play here tonight.

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

Who's to mind the place with all the folk gone fiddle-faddling out?

Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892

Why don't you attend to your fishing instead of fiddle-faddling with that revolver?

The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War George Manville Fenn 1870

I am asking you to go fiddle-faddling about my wife again: I don't see how you _can_ do that, after the way she has used you!

Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864

Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!

Amours De Voyage Anonymous 1858

And I've no enmity against all manner of fiddle-faddling, if folks have got nothin 'better to do.

Nobody Susan Warner 1852

Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!

Amours De Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough 1840

I could make myself as smart as any one when I was going to a dance, or to a party where I was likely to meet pretty girls; but I should have laughed myself to scorn if I'd stood fiddle-faddling at a glass, smirking at my own likeness, all for my own pleasure. '

Wives and Daughters Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837