fiddler's bidding
fiddler's bidding
An invitation given unexpectedly, usually or at the last-minute. No, I think she only invited me because I happened to call her. It's just fiddler's bidding.
See also: bidding
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
fiddler's bidding
Last-minute invitation. The image is a vacancy at a dinner table to which an itinerant fiddler who appeared at the door and asked to play for food was invited to join the household at the table.
See also: bidding
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- fiddler's pay
- come out of the blue
- dark horse
- dark horse, a
- a dark horse
- be in for a shock
- come out of a clear blue sky
- come out of a/the clear blue sky
- drop in on (someone)
- as it turned out