How To Use Diddly In A Sentence

  • The strawberries are cheap, even though they have travelled across the continent, because the pickers are paid diddly-squat.
  • I'd seen far too many T.V. shows to even think that that would do diddly-squat.
  • “To say that the systematic condemnation of millions to bondage and generation upon generation to servitude is ‘not significant,’ or that the tearing apart of families and the selling of human beings as cattle ‘doesn't amount to diddly’ is outrageous for any public official to say, let alone a man Republicans have placed in a position of leadership.” DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • So, slavery didn't amount to "diddly" Governor Barbour? DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • Voting for these Bozos ain't gonna change diddly-squat - it's all more of the same.
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  • It should challenge the 'folkie' stereotype of four old geezers in Aran Sweaters singing diddly dee. The Line Of Best Fit
  • Kind of makes up for doing diddly-squat over the weekend, I feel.
  • When I left Huckleberry I went back to Fife and it didn't matter diddly-squat what you did or if you played well.
  • Lobbying the state legislatures to change the pay structure has done diddly-squat.
  • For one thing, their kids will get all the money, and the poor world will get diddly-squat.
  • In truth, we know diddly-squat about what is just around the corner in terms of earnings, let alone what will happen over the long term.
  • It looks as though you're eating diddly-squat, but you end up carbo-loading like a triathlete before the race.
  • Brad? He doesn't know diddly about baseball.
  • Everything you have ever learnt about putting one foot in front of the other and moving forward counts for diddly-squat. Times, Sunday Times
  • How about if we sell Barbour and let him work in the cotton fields for free and then his owners, throw him in shack, whip himup and lets see if its "diddly". DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • Haley Barbour's "diddly" characterization (April 12 article, "Barbour: Confederacy flap not worth 'diddly'") is a blithe dismissal of even the mention of slavery when the "noble heritage of the Confederacy" is memorialized. Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
  • Just what you expect from this man – the recognition of slavery in the Confederate cause means "diddly". DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • We still have institutionalized racism in this country and yet we can't tackle those problems because slavery amounts to "diddly"! DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • Just because my blood happened to be on a note in my neighbor's yard (albeit, dead neighbor) means diddly-squat.
  • We are making money out of an asset that otherwise would be doing diddly-squat.
  • To then make it sound as if it weren't "diddly" takes an even more foolish stance because of the huge problems with racism and Jim Crow in this nation after 1865. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • This regulator has failed the Irish aviation industry and is wasting taxpayers' money doing diddly-squat.
  • In the developer lexicon, the word security - standing for a pain-in-the-butt speed bump that doesn't do diddly-squat for functionality - came to have no relevant place.
  • Now with email am I supposed to type for hours and still get diddly-squat?
  • 'One day I woke up and when I peeked outside my haystack of a house I saw a Mountain, high above the diddly little hills around my village. THE BOOK OF THE DIE
  • In respect of getting rid of the private prison in Auckland there has been absolutely none - diddly-squat.
  • There is nothing wrong with noting the Confederacy; but to omit a principle cause of the civil war and reduce it to "diddly" is bad. DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • Second, the columnist must know whereof he speaks, and though I can't recall his words, I can reduce them to one thought: You don't know diddly .
  • Let's remember Haley BOURBON'S little "diddly" comment this November and give the Republicans "diddly SQUAT" at the polls ...... DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • Squatting brings to mind that thing that dogs do before they do their dog's do; squat also means ‘short and thick, dumpy’ according to my dictionary; and diddly-squat is a more colourful phrase for naff all.
  • Slavery was "diddly" indeed ... just how many northern Republicans, the party of Lincoln, men died to keep the Union together? DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • I now know that whether you win or lose is really all about luck, and that studying all the form books in all the world won't get you diddly-squat - unless fortune is in your favour.
  • Not to acknowledge the brutal component of slavery as the central issue in the American Civil War and for you to state that the omission amounts to 'diddly'; is a lot like the Nazi's refusing to acknowledge the holocaust. Gov: Concern over slavery omission 'doesn't amount to diddly'
  • Blogs may be hip and trendy, but they don't do diddly-squat for most people's businesses.
  • They forget that these browser things are just tools, and browsers are just windows onto the web, so a graceful XUL framework means diddly-squat to the innocent punter.

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