Word: fiddlesticks
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...Sammy’s Little League triumphs. Luckily, Faust has a good ear for picking just the right words. One teenager, “Nannie Haskins of Tennessee,” takes offense when told her black mourning dress becomes her. “‘Becomes me fiddlestick,’” Faust quotes Haskins as writing. “‘What do I care whether it becomes me or not?’” Haskins’ anger seethes off the page. Despite her extensive research, Faust gracefully weaves her sources...
Pitti-Sing: Corroborative detail indeed! Corroborative fiddlestick...
...fiddlestick, I didn't get in till five this morning and missed class again," a Junior on pro exclaimed entering the Harvard Square Garage on his way to Northampton, "but I mailed him a note saying that I was sick and had gotten lecture notes from Mike...
...enterprise to which they had given the best energies of their lives, or else of being, in Arthur Brisbane's phrase, "sold with the plantation." For Colonel Nelson, was only one of three publishers of important newspapers to evince in his will that he did not care a fiddlestick what became of his newspaper after he had gone. "To be sold." Frank Munsey and Victor Lawson used the same phrase...
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