FIDDLE n. An instrument ordsprog
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 We're not Nero. We're not partying while Rome burns. It's not like we're saying they can't evacuate us. We're just like a little heartbeat. |
| As Rome burned, Nero fiddled, ... ... The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundations of our society, the family unit. |
| It just never occurred to me. My sister sang, and so did my dad. I was the fiddle player, but then Rounder asked me to give it a try and see how it goes. Two hours of fiddle music -- even if you're a fiddle fan -- is a lot. (The singing) could open up a lot of doors. |
| [The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a stand-up bass, pounding a drum, strumming a guitar or blowing into a trumpet.] I think of it as a mini museum, ... We have some basic knowledge of all the instruments. My main instrument is the mountain dulcimer, but we'll have a banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitars, dulcimers and a washtub and stand-up bass. There will be a wind instrument area and lots of percussion instruments, including a limberjack. That's a board with a dancing man you bounce in time to the music. |
| I'm not fiddling, ... You give me an all-pro quarterback, and we won't have to fiddle around. I don't like to do this. |
| In the history of the Rome Center, there's always been a kind of tug between Chicago and Rome, ... The people who are in charge of the Rome Center feel as though they're under constraints from Chicago and the people in Chicago want to treat the Rome Center as if that's an extension of our school here.... If it's true that no full-time faculty are going over there at all ... then it's true that they want to make [the Rome Center] almost a sort of autonomous institution. |
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| They're fiddling while Rome burns. This has really tarnished the reputation of the port. |
Matt Yates (1967-)
| The research is that the more you fiddle with your portfolio the worse you do. Investors rarely benefit from fiddling with their portfolio. My only advice to people that tweak their portfolios is to stop. |
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| We have set up an appointment for Mugabe to meet the secretary-general in Rome therefore we do expect him to be in Rome. |
| He asked me, that if the question did come up, to let you know that it was never discussed in Rome, ... That there is no plan whatsoever that he be replaced and be moving to Rome in June or any time in the near future. |
| Rome from street level. (It's) Rome from the point of view of ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of that time. |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." --Orm Pludge".
varav 884890 på nordiska
Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)
Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik
Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn." To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst,
'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." --Orm Pludge".