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be fiddling

adjective

Of petty or trivial importance; footling

  • It was a fiddling little fault, but was disastrous.

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But it can be unsafe to constantly be fiddling with those iPod controls.

Something, it seems, may be fiddling with the dials on the universal control board.

"The belief is that if you have a foreign bank account, you must be fiddling your taxes," he observed.

There is a visceral belief in some quarters that we shouldn't be fiddling with nature in such fundamental ways.

This is what I've been looking for!' " But guitars take two hands to play — you can't be fiddling with knobs during a solo.

HE HAS been accused of murder and convicted of heroin trafficking, but it may be fiddling with Picassos that gets him in the end.

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Most were fiddling with their iPhones.

He was fiddling with some equipment.

It is fiddling while Rome burns.

And — and, you know, Nero is fiddling.

Fred was fiddling with the radio.

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