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Jan. 25, 2015

fiddlestick \FID-l-stik\ noun 1. anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say. Quotes …yet I scarcely hope to be believed that I state, however solemnly, that my poor father put me, when I was about fifteen years of age, into the counting-house of what he termed "a respectable hardware and commission merchant doing a capital bit of business!" A capital bit of fiddlestick! -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Business Man," Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1840 Origin Fiddlestick stems from the late Middle English word fidillstyk, referring to the bow with which one plays a fiddle.

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