词汇 | fiddle-dee-dee |
词源 | fiddle-dee-dee! An exclamation indicating that something is nonsense, made famous by Margaret Mitchell’s heroine Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind (1936): “She said ‘fiddle-dee- dee!’ many times . . . and vowed that she’d never believe any- thing any man told her.” Fiddle-dee-dee was popular long before Scarlett, being a corruption of the Italian fedido (by the faith of God). |
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