Fiddling While Rome Burns Edit Meaning

1.

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***." >_<

See add, adhd