Stop fiddling (about) and do some work.
I was fiddling in the fields.
Don't stand there fiddling about; go on with your job.
Don't waste your time fiddling around on your guitar.
Don't go fiddling around with that spanner, you'll bugger the whole works up.
Have you ever seen a sales guy not fiddling with or talking on his Blackberry phone?
I start fiddling with it. I came up with this letter.
Xu Huabei was fiddling with a bunch of photos mounted on white cardboard.
She took my kids into the garden and, on returning, found me fiddling with her CD player.
Tocquevillian liberals believe that governments should encourage better citizenship. Economics liberals distrust fiddling with markets, however worthy the goal.
Mr Sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.
Each ecological disaster or problem traces its cause back to carbon. To quibble about this is really fiddling while Rome burns.
Britain had a weak culture of savings even before Mr Brown's fiddling; the take-up of private pensions is low and declining.
These are mostly "easy things" like fiddling with aerodynamics or pumping coolant "on demand", says Hans Rathgeber, BMW's head of vehicle architecture.
A lean, lonely figure roaming through his museum or fiddling with his old music boxes, he has lived five years of Depression without apparent change.
"So," said the bear, "fiddling is a thing I should like to learn too, that I might dance whenever I felt like it."
It's alleged that Jobs asked engineers on the original iPod team to stay up all night fiddling with the headphone jack so that it made a more satisfying clicking sound.
With our political system tarnished by expenses fiddling, and the banking system in meltdown, there is one period that provides a blueprint for an enlightened financial system - the middle ages.
In 1956 Mr Sternbach, fiddling with yet another benzodiazepine, treated it with methylamine, made a white crystalline powder, labelled it Ro 5-0690 and put it away on a shelf.
And Wilson and Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, physical evidence for the Big Bang, while fiddling with an antenna designed to catch radio waves bouncing off satellites.
They are right that trust in politicians has collapsed, notably after a string of Revelations about MPs and peers caught fiddling their expenses in the last parliament (leading to prison for some).
