Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
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It has some unusually rude synonyms, doesn't it? I'm going to use it in the pub later, and those quiddlers won't have the faintest idea how rude I'm really being about them.
Reminded me of a conversation I had with a Norwegian friend today: why should "Quisling" be used universally, post WW2, for a traitor? (She always corrects my pathetic attempts at pronunciation)
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Fingers crossed
FYI, 'lightning' and 'lightening' are two different things.
Also misspelled? Not misspelt? Sounds a little American....
And they're not even homonyms, so in selecting "lightening", the error is entirely yours.
Do you need a fiddle to fiddle?
Presumably whatever Nero did, it was called something else at the time, but I guess it had an equivalent name and was translated/adapted later.
https://www.britannica.com/story/did-nero-really-fiddle-as-rome-burned
She is right though.
Anyways the orange idiot sure does and he did so right after screwing up the entire economy this week
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-tariffs/articleshow/119972287.cms?from=mdr