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taterguy

(29,582 posts) Mon Sep 14, 2015, 07:30 PM Sep 2015

Fiddlesticks

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Fiddlesticks (Original Post) taterguy Sep 2015 OP

By an odd coincidence... Ron Obvious Sep 2015 #1

Ron Obvious

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1. By an odd coincidence...

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Mon Sep 14, 2015, 08:44 PM

Sep 2015

... I just learnt recently that the exasperated expression 'Fiddlesticks' is centuries old and dates to the difficulties of transitioning from plucking stringed instruments to scraping them with a bow around 1600 AD or so. Makes sense when you think about it.

OK, now bite my head off.

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