fiddle with

Verb

Meaning

manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner

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I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym. Will Self

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance. Patrick Rothfuss

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. David Hockney

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with. Peter Carey

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. Nicholson Baker

He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview Source: Internet

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