fiddle (around) withsomething
phrasal verbwithfiddleverbuk/ˈfɪd.əl/us/ˈfɪd.əl/
disapproving(UKalsofiddle (about) with sth)to makesmallchangesto something totryto make itwork:
Stopfiddlingabout withyourhair- itlooksfine.
Someone's beenfiddlingaround with mycomputer!
totouchormovethings withyourfingersbecause you arenervousorbored:
He was justfiddlingaround with the things on hisdesk.
Correcting and mending
- calibration
- clean(someone/something)up
- correction
- fine-tune
- fixsomethingup
- mess
- recondition
- reconstruct
- reconstruction
- rectification
- refine
- remedy
- revise
- revised
- set/put the record straightidiom
- smoothsomethingaway
- smoothen
- sort
- sortsomethingout
- tinker
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