fiddle-faddle

• Scene after scene of verbose fiddle-faddle: Characters orate at each other, while sitting in cars, sitting at dining tables, sitting in living rooms, sitting at office desks. —  GreenCine Daily
• Do you hear it saying it could have excused her for that fiddle-faddle with a younger -- a young lover? —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
• Well might the merit of your passion be doubted, you say, if, like Mr. Solmes -- fiddle-faddle! —  Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
• To think of such foolish fiddle-faddle stopping a man of his acumen and strength! —  The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
• Think of wasting time in such fiddle-faddle proceedings! —  The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories

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