fiddlesticks

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"Water-fiddlesticks, my dear!" said the professor; and he turned away sharply.

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  • That was all fiddlesticks, 'cause Cap'n Az never went to church except for the six weeks after he was married, and pretty scattern' 'long the last three of them Well, he hadn't talked that way very long afore he had that whole vestry as damp as a fishin' schooner's deck in a Banks fog. —  Fair Harbor
  • What do you think it comes to Bout thirty pun'," hazarded the other Thirty fiddlesticks," retorted Tweedie; "there you are in black and white--sixty-three pounds eighteen shillings and tenpence ha'penny And is that what Mas'r Edward wants?" —  Sea Urchins
  • I was the woman in this instance I should like to consult my friends Consult your fiddlesticks," replied she, quickly. —  The Privateersman
  • And it is all fiddlesticks, anyhow. —  Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem
  • Shall I congratulate you This did not please Liddy at all I wish everybody would mind their own business," she said with a snap, "and leave me to mind mine Oh, fiddlesticks," continued Emily; "what do you care? —  Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England
 

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  1. From pl. of fiddlestick, bow for playing a fiddle.
 

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