What is Fiddling While Rome Burns?
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To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis.
Origin: (The source of this phrase is the story that Nero played the fiddle (violin) while Rome Burned during the Great Fire in AD 64).
duskins: "Just waiting for the time to be ideal!"
Zavah: "That time is never going to exist,why are you fiddling while Rome burns?"
duskins: . . . "oh f***." >_<
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Newcastle, England expression for a gas warning.
Hoo, put that tab oot or we'll gan up in a blue light.
See radgie, doylem, charv..
