fiddlesticks
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of fiddlesticks
First recorded in 1600–10; plural of fiddlestick or shortening of fiddlestick’s end (i.e., fiddlesticks end at a point, which is nothing)
Example Sentences
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On Greenwich Avenue, crowds spilled out of Fiddlesticks Pub, the mass of bodies sweaty in the still-hot air.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021
It’s worth the journey for seafood at Fiddlesticks.
From Time • Sep. 25, 2017
Fiddlesticks, says Konrad Leonhardt, director of the Mittenwald violin school in Germany.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fiddlesticks, too, to the A. M. A.'s visceral tensions!
From Time Magazine Archive
"Fiddlesticks," and the colonel stepped out on the platform and down the steps.
From The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt by Remey, Oliver
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