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Fiddlesticks!

An exclamation signifying what you say is not worth attention. To fiddle about is to waste time, fiddling. A fiddlestick is the instrument used in fiddling, hence the fiddlestick is even less than the fiddle.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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