fiddle

     

String instrument (bowe)

Trivia about fiddle

  • When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away & couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c.
  • From the name of the Roman goddess Vitula, it's what y'all might call a violin down in Nashville
  • You're in fine fettle if you're as fit as one of these
  • The OED says this word for a violin is "only in familiar or contemptuous use"
  • With exercise, you can become as fit as this musical instrument
  • The jig is up when this instrument stops playing
  • It's country star Alison Krauss' instrument
  • This folksy state instrument of Missouri often accompanies its state folk dance, the square dance
  • Proverbially, to dally in the face of a crisis is to do this "while Rome burns"
  • To move your fingers or hands in a nervous fashion

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