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Fit as a Fiddle may refer to: "Fit as a Fiddle" (song) 1932; Fit as a Fiddle by Natalie MacMaster 1997; Fit as a Fiddle, album by Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen 1999; Fit as a Fiddle, 1952 keep-fit documentary with Joe Robinson (actor) Fit as a Fiddle, 1980s sketch in the sketch series Hee Haw with Gailard Sartain
Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love)" is an American popular song. It was written by Arthur Freed , Al Hoffman , and Al Goodhart (or Goodheart) and published in 1932. It was a hit single that year for Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians .
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The American Heritage Dictionary claims that the word is derived from "spiggoty", possibly from the Spanglish phrase "No speak the English". [22] Wog: The cacophemism "wog", for a foreigner or person of colour, is sometimes believed to be an acronym for "wily Oriental gentleman". It is more likely to be a shortening of "golliwog". [23] [24] [25]
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
synonym: 1: a word equivalent in meaning or nearly so to another word; a word that may be substituted for another word that has the same or a similar meaning, such as near and close (compare "antonym"). 2: In Biology, one or more names given to the same taxon, and so considered equivalent.
Fit as a Fiddle is an album by Natalie MacMaster. [2] [3] It was reissued by Rounder Records in 1997. [4] Production. The album was produced at CBC's Studio H. [5]