Sentence examples for fiddling about from inspiring English sources

There are half a dozen thrillers with "jigsaw" in the title, and I trust that anyone watching me at one of my jigsaws assumes I'm not just fiddling about with bits of cardboard.

It's a way to move small amounts of capital from (say) the U.S. to South Africa without fiddling about too much with exchanges and bank fees.

"It was a lot of fiddling about," he says of that session.

By the time you've finished fiddling about; it all takes more time (Woman, 87 years old).

Fiddling about and getting nowhere.

"It is just fiddling about with words.

Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Police's chief constable, said it was not about "fiddling" figures, but about the way forces chose to categorise various types of offence.

Should Dell not tell investors about this?Enron and WorldCom were seen to be largely about fiddling the figures in financial reports and rewarding executives excessively.

Talk about fiddling while Canterbury burns.

But again this is not an issue that many get concerned about – fiddling while Rome burns.

Literature is very clear about fiddling with forces that cannot be controlled.