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fiddlesticks

[ fid-l-stiks ]

interjection

  1. (used to express impatience, dismissal, etc.)


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fiddlesticks1

First recorded in 1600–10; plural of fiddlestick or shortening of fiddlestick’s end (i.e., fiddlesticks end at a point, which is nothing)
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Example Sentences

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“Donald Trump is tweeting loudly and carrying fiddlesticks. The level of damage is not as much as one might have thought given all the tweeting and speeches.â€

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To those who say that’s just impractical, that Hadi’s being politically pragmatic in strengthening his own position before taking on the remnants of the old regime, Karman says, in effect, fiddlesticks.

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"A hundred and twenty fiddlesticks," the major said.

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City of learning, of strange miracles, of a thousand profundities——†“City of a thousand fiddlesticks!†piped the parrot.

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The doctor’s reply was—“Fiddlesticks, madam, fiddlesticks,â€â€”for doctors do not like other people, especially female-people, to put words in their mouths.

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