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Fiddle with   /fˈɪdəl wɪð/   Listen
Fiddle with

verb
1.
Manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner.  Synonym: twiddle.






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"Fiddle with" Quotes from Famous Books



... to take my fiddle with me, dearie," she explained, "and I can't carry it because I've got you. You can't carry it because you've got to hold Happy Pete.... Now, then, ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White

... who, not understanding a word he said, considered him a prodigious clever man, had impressed him with an unhesitating idea of his own irresistibility. He had not only the requisites already specified for fascinating female vanity, he could likewise fiddle with tolerable dexterity, though by no means so quick as Mr Chromatic (for our readers are of course aware that rapidity of execution, not delicacy of expression, constitutes the scientific perfection of modern music), and could warble a fashionable love-ditty ...
— Headlong Hall • Thomas Love Peacock

... play it with his nose, Mawruss," Abe declared hotly. "Do you mean to told me, Mawruss, that a business man like Geigermann is going to buy a line of goods like Sammet Brothers got it just because Leon Sammet's cousin plays a fiddle with his knees?" ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass



Words linked to "Fiddle with" :   manipulate, twiddle



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