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fiddler’s elbow
noun
the right-angled sharp turns in country roads CANADA- Narrow, curving, and unblessed with gravel, the road to Hudson’s Hope has many a switchback and “fiddler’s elbow” too slippery to negotiate in wet weather. — Beaver, p. 18, September 1950
- — Harry Shufelt, Along the Old Roads, p. 40, 1965
▶ in and out like a fiddler’s elbow
applied to anything or anyone that enters and exits a given situation with unusual rapidity; especially, of a male’s enthusiastic thrusting during sexual intercourse UK- A cruise down The Listening Bank, make em pay attention by waving a sawn-off around and hop it with a bag of notes, in an out like a fiddler’s elbow. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 105, 1994
- What are the Government’s intentions on the proposed draft Mental Health Bill, which appears to have been in and out like a fiddler’s elbow? Again, the House and people outside are keen to find out what is happening. — Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove), Hansard (The United Kingdom Parliament), 19 December 2002
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