fiddledeedee attitude
- noun
- /ˌfɪdəlˈdiːdi ˈætɪtjuːd/
- Archaic
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actitud despreocupada
- His fiddledeedee attitude towards the project frustrated the team.
Examples
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Don't adopt that fiddledeedee attitude during the meeting!
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She responded to the criticism with a fiddledeedee attitude that surprised everyone.
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His fiddledeedee attitude made it clear he wasn't taking the situation seriously.
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It's hard to resolve issues when you have a fiddledeedee attitude toward real problems.
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His fiddledeedee attitude made it clear he wasn't taking the situation seriously.
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It's hard to resolve issues when you have a fiddledeedee attitude toward real problems.
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Her fiddledeedee attitude about the deadlines caused frustration among the team.
Synonyms
4
8.1
Not caring about danger or the bad results of actions
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7.5
A way of showing you do not value someone's ideas or feelings
A way of behaving that shows you do not care about others
Antonyms
How Dismissive
Surface Forms
Morphology
fiddledeedee + attitude
The second element 'attitude' clearly signals a type of stance, and if a learner recognizes 'fiddledeedee' as an interjection expressing dismissiveness or frivolity, the combined meaning ('a dismissive/carefree attitude') is derivable. However, 'fiddledeedee' is rare, dialectal/onomatopoeic and absent from standard dictionaries here, so many B1 learners who only know 'attitude' would not predict the sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Fiddledeedee attitude may come from the silly little song fiddle-dee-dee that people used to hum when they wanted to act like they did not care. So, the image of someone singing a light, playful tune explains why the phrase means 'carefree' or 'not taking something seriously'.