Fiddle-Faddle
Fiddle-Faddle
(FID-l-fad-l)
Noun, exclamation:
-Trivial matters; nonsense.
Verb:
-To fuss or waste time, especially over trivial matters.
From trifles - busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense. Apparently a reduplication of obsolete faddle - to trifle, or of fiddle in its contemptuous sense.
Used in a sentence:
“You know Trevor, you needn’t bother yourself with all that fiddle-faddle.”
