Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To play the fiddle idly. 2 (context transitive English) To waste (time)
Usage examples of "fiddle away".
So then the guy in the liquor store said his delivery boy would walk over to the Casino with me and the pint, and I went in to borrow the eight cents from one of the boys and the delivery boy went in with me, carrying the pint, and there was Al, and he said, 'For Crissakes, Artie, if you can get your bull fiddle away from that damn midget, you can have your job back starting tomorrow night,' and Mac lent me the eight cents and the delivery boy gave me the pint and beat it back to the liquor store, and now you see, Mr.
She put her fiddle away first, with hands that shook with exhaustion, but were otherwise unmarred, by blisters or any other sign of the abuse she'd heaped on them.
He told Einstein that if he continued to destroy ghosts' respect for the audits, he was going to take Einstein's fiddle away from him for all eternity.
But it seems to me that in these days we have a tendency to confuse the arts, and forget that the novelist's business is rather to weave a plot and edify his readers than to fiddle away at producing a frontispiece or tailpiece in drypoint.
Why any grown man would fiddle away his time on this cow pasture pool is more’.
The energy, the capacity to fiddle away a lifetime without dignified work, and, in its place, the performance of the trivial, even the voluntarily trivial, as we have constructed here in The Game.