How To Use Diddle In A Sentence

  • He was only on the way to being "diddled" in 1822, but the prophecy (suggested, no doubt, by the announcement of the sale of furniture, etc., at Wanstead The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
  • And it wasn't just the UN and governments that diddled.
  • The first two bios in the series are available: Bo Diddley here, Chuck Berry here.
  • A trip up the Thames from Southend-On-Sea to the Houses of Parliament provides him with many fine opportunities to indulge in his own idiosyncratic brand of taradiddles and horseplay.
  • They diddled their insurance company by making a false claim.
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  •   I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • It was no big deal loading the program, and I diddled around with it for an hour or so.
  • I seem to recall she was the one who diddled me out of 10 quid some time back.
  • As we fiddle, and diddle and argue about this issue, it is going on in places like Europe and China and India and we could be falling behind here.
  • What we want now is a bit of a focus by the estate agencies on how they can make sure that the environment doesn't get diddled in this process of opening our water market.
  • Does he want proof that I am not trying to diddle the taxman?
  • However, if the marks want to be gulled, cullied, and diddled out of their money like that, who am I to complain. carol clouser The Discovery Institute and publications - The Panda's Thumb
  • I checked the bill and realized the restaurant had diddled me out of £5.
  • More than 17,000 small businesses diddled employees of their superannuation last financial year, the Australian Taxation Office reported, last week.
  • So, next time you feel stressed out, cut yourself some slack; we've been diddled out of ten hours a day the rest of the world takes for granted.
  • He diddled me! He said that there were six in a bag, but there were only five.
  • I've been diddled! Half of these tomatoes are bad!
  •   I take a deep breath and try again, spitting out a right-handed flam paradiddle-diddle, then a sound from the drum like wiping out on my bicycle, and my sticks come to rest with a buzz. Moe Tucker
  • The problem is that they have to deal with racing drivers on a regular basis, and if there's one thing you don't want if you have any intention of maintaining your mental stability, it's listening to the humgudgeon, half-truths, taradiddles, quarter-truths, fiddlesticks and non-truths of even one racing driver, never mind a gridful of the blighters.
  • So he leavened justice with mercy, and, having dried her tears with his lips, he found himself in the same position as before, with a mad suspicion tattering through his brain that maybe he had been "diddled" again. Here are Ladies
  • But she has garnered her MacArthur ‘genius’ fellowship, two concurrent academic chairs, and occasional movie roles, which should keep her solvent while she diddles away.
  • I diddled around with writing stories in hypertext, but was never satisfied with the result; they seemed to me either confusing or aimless or simply mechanistic, and at best I came up with something so voluminous that I couldn't possibly complete it in one lifetime. MetaHaiku
  • I am very familiar with the paradiddle after having taught many beginning percussionsists how to play one! ParaMonday « Fairegarden
  • We share part of the journey along her local high street and she points to the shop where she was diddled out of £15 when buying a pair of flip-flops - she was too timid to go back and challenge staff after discovering she'd been short-changed.
  • So let me get this straight you guys diddled around at Starbucks for an hour, so that by the time we got to Ironcore it was too late to stop him and he took off with the springs anyway, while ICBC tried to bomb him and us out of existence.
  • South Asia, where many people are illiterate, ignorant of their rights, and thus easily diddled, is the home of this system.
  • Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. Moe Tucker
  • The chief use of paradiddles is a base on which to develop beats.
  • But I will work on my secret formula so that I can be 33% more accurate in the future, perhaps upgrading from "squat" to "diddley squat. Zillow Talk Isn't Comfy
  • So one can say that they 'diddled' while Rome burned? Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Or if one starts with the left hand the paradiddle looks like this: ParaMonday « Fairegarden
  • Air Force was allowed to maintain a bombing range right off shore, and the major oil companies continued to drill and dredge and diddle and daddle all along the edges of the preserve. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • Disgust and anger were widespread in the labour movement this week as more workers were diddled out of their entitlements in a corporate sleight-of-hand.
  • The Washington Post reported in its online editions Saturday night that Obama's daughters chose the name Bo for the pup because first lady Michelle Obama's father was nicknamed Diddley, a reference to the singer "Bo" Diddley. News | SJ | http://www.goupstate.com
  • This week on Hidden Treasures, host trevor Reekie previews the exceptional voice of a visitor playing at this weekend's Womad festival who surprisingly manages to infuse a swamp blues standard with Anglo-Egyptian electronica, as well as exploring the unique origins of an instrument called the diddley bow. Radio New Zealand News Headlines
  • I take a deep breath and try again, spitting out a right-handed flam paradiddle-diddle, then a sound from the drum like wiping out on my bicycle, and my sticks come to rest with a buzz. Moe Tucker
  • Henry may have fiddled and diddled, but at least he did not go out of his way to slag off an entire nation.
  • Paradiddles are a rudimentary exercise for stick drummers and can be useful for learning the "handing" for djembe.
  • Hugo – a musician so good, they named him bloody "Hugo" – says this bumdiddle plunky clunky bluegrass unimagining of Jay-Z's classic got the seal of approval from the big man himself, and has been doing the rounds online for over a year now. This week's new singles
  • Now it fiddles, diddles and blathers in the face of acknowledged White House crime.
  • I realized the restaurant had diddled me out of $ 3 when I checked the bill.
  • He was diddled out of his legacy, started with nothing but red ink in Adelaide, and now owns half the world.
  • I diddled around as everyone waited, but I was baffled.
  •   She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. Moe Tucker
  • I diddled around with writing stories in hypertext, but was never satisfied with the result; they seemed to me either confusing or aimless or simply mechanistic, and at best I came up with something so voluminous that I couldn't possibly complete it in one lifetime. MetaHaiku
  • They think we've diddled them out of their land.
  • I don't give anybody my credit card numbers, and don't try to diddle me.
  • Yet right from the start - that bass-drum paradiddle with a percussive undercurrent that sounds like the rattle of a stage thunder machine - the recording is downright witty in its sonic variations.
  • But the government still took away a huge chunk - this from a man who had fastidiously paid every tax and never diddled anyone out of anything.
  • He hasn't received any financial help and felt "diddled" because he sees so much abuse of the welfare system by others less in need - you only have to open the newspapers to see where he is coming from. Activity Update
  • Make sure you take advice from a solicitor who will be able to tell you if an agency is trying to diddle you or not!
  • The basic paradiddle is played by the hands with the following repeating pattern: ParaMonday « Fairegarden
  • Why do they diddle and dawdle while real-life families suffer?
  • Let us therefore avoid giving ear to a lot of taradiddles about our soldiers in the trenches.
  • She has diddled me out of the rent .
  • However, we all know the the queen of pandering and dirty campaign tactics and who flip flopped on whether Florida should be seated or not, gives diddley sqaut about the Floridians voting rights or represenation except how it might improve her chances. Florida Democrats nearly united in presentation
  • Diddley, whose signature "hambone" beat provided one of the original and most enduring rhythms in rock, built the foundations from which many musicians - including the British invasion bands of the 1960s - have built. R.I.P. Bo Diddley
  •   She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. Moe Tucker
  • You misled me with this tarradiddle about Grandmother's death. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • "I dare say my nephew told you a good many taradiddles in his time."
  • Monday night was another night of the fiddley diddley, where Sammy ensured he picked up a title with the sleazy shirt award.
  • I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • Diddle the switch see if the light comes on.
  • This nincum-fubby-diddle-boodle, he Went home, and did not GAWATN'S laughter see! Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870
  • It takes all kinds, and da dumb sheep-kine is definitely flailing around looking for their trough of free oats, headpats, comfortable daily livings for doing jack-diddley and making fun of other people as long as they're straight, white or don't want to share their sexual orientation or personal problems with the entire world . . . Preaching to the Choir When the Song Has Changed
  • riddle-diddle-dow," Furlong wondered what a milliner could have to do in such an establishment, and his wonder was not lessened when his guide added, "The milliner is a queer chap, and maybe he'll tell us something funny. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes
  • The slide technique derives from a homemade one-string contraption known as the diddley bow, a childhood toy of many American blues pioneers and similar to African stringed instruments. Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • They've diddled me out of the rent!
  • Her tarradiddle was of a nature that is usually considered excusable - at least with grown-up people; but, nevertheless, she would have been nearer to perfection could she have confined herself to the truth.
  • For two years the gang bought and sold mobile phones and diddled the Revenue out of an estimated £40m.
  • I never sat in a room and tried to copy records or practice a paradiddle. ɘloЯ
  • He diddled me! He said that there were six in a bag, but there were only five.
  • The paradiddle is another important snare drum rudiment that will help one get a handle on the sticks. ParaMonday « Fairegarden
  • If you were a member of the "band and drums" you could at least exercise yourself a little better, clattering out your paradiddles, flams and ratamacues, than the others who had to stump about in their gleaming boots to the accompaniment of our music. A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons
  •   Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. Moe Tucker
  •   I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • Cigar box guitars date back to the American civil war, and diddley bows go back even further – they are thought to have evolved from Ghanaian string instruments. Hey, what's that sound: Homemade guitars
  • Diddled he daddle a drop of the cradler on delight mebold laddy was stetched? Finnegans Wake
  • The name also recalled the diddley bow, an African single-string guitar that was seminal to blues music. Bo, the Portuguese water dog.
  • a superiority of knowledge and presumed judgment -- they have a method of patching up deep matches to _diddle the dupes_, and to introduce _throws over, doubles, double doubles_, to ease the heavy pockets of their burdens. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
  • It has become the profession of public office seekers, title hunters, social pushers, dollar diddlers, mountebanks and cads.
  • I've been diddled! Half of these tomatoes are bad!
  • Meanwhile, the Dems have diddled and daddled getting the wording just right on a bi-partisan resolution condemning the escalation, one that is NON-BINDING in any case! Ten Things Learned Since Dems' Election Victory
  • By the same token, Bo Diddley taught the incorrect but unforgettable version of the amatory question: ‘Who Do You Love?’
  • They diddled their insurance company by making a false claim.
  • So stories about the doctor who sexually assaults patients, the accountant who gets done for fraud, or the lawyer who diddles clients out of large amounts of money, always seem to astound us and attract huge press coverage.
  • Like everyone else, he was shocked to see her charming new husband dishing out dodgy advice and even trying to diddle Emily and the Duckworths out of their life-savings.
  • I realized the restaurant had diddled me out of $ 3 when I checked the bill.
  • That employees of other school systems may also victimize children does not excuse or mitigate the heinousness of pedophilia, no matter who employs the kiddie-diddlers. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Attorney Suggests That It May Be a Crime for Teachers to Follow the New State Law Mandating Certain Forms of Sex Education
  • We fought World War Two for three struggling years while you diddled about not sure whether to trade with or bomb the Germans.
  • I'm not much of a musician, I just like to diddle around.
  • She has diddled me out of the rent .
  • I've been around the block enough times to know better than give credibility to these twisted taradiddles.
  • I checked the bill and realized the restaurant had diddled me out of £5.
  • Sumner scheduled sentencing for the following month, but he postponed it after Bo Diddley submitted a posttrial motion, written with the help of another inmate, claiming that he'd been denied a fair trial because of his public defender's "ineffective assistance. Chicago Reader
  •   Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. Moe Tucker

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