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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



... got to the house, hurrah! but all was going merry there! The woman had already had nearly everything killed that was in the farmyard, and had made pancakes, and the parson was there, and had brought his fiddle with him. The gossip knocked at the door, and woman asked who was there. "It is I, gossip," said the egg-merchant, "give me shelter this night; I have not sold my eggs at the market, so now I have to carry them home again, and they are so heavy that I shall never be able to ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers
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... fell to caressing his fiddle with the bow till it began to make sweet music, and therewith the hearts of all danced with it; and presently words come into his mouth, and he fell to singing; and ...
— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris
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... I don't? Oh, the fact that I let him go off so easily? That's no proof. I never fiddle with the brakes till the car starts down-hill. But let that pass for the present; Mr. Clavering, then, did not explain ...
— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green
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Words linked to "Fiddle with" :   manipulate


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