Fit as a Fiddle
Shut up a Second
Sanspants Radio
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sandspans Radio, Australia's least coherent podcast network. |
| 0:06.3 | Hey everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of Shut Up a Second. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Jackson Bailey. |
| 0:13.1 | Okay, and I guess I'm by myself today. |
| 0:15.8 | And today's topic is fit as a fiddle. |
| 0:20.4 | Okay. This topic is fit as a fiddle. |
| 0:28.7 | No one said anything. |
| 0:29.6 | What happened? |
| 0:30.5 | I tried to push it. |
| 0:31.7 | He called my bluff. |
| 0:32.7 | He called my bluff. What happened? |
| 0:33.5 | You left me sitting there. |
| 0:35.7 | Like a moron. |
| 0:36.5 | I wanted to make the topic |
| 0:38.0 | fit as a fiddle because I got questions. Okay, let's explore. Well, we don't have answers and you know that. You know I don't know what a fiddle is, Adam. Come on. Yeah, but did you know that the expression started its life as fit as a trout? No, don't. Shut up. What the fuck are you talking about? |
| 0:55.6 | It did. |
| 0:56.8 | The expression fit as a trout? No, don't. Shut up. What the fuck are you talking about? |
| 0:55.7 | It did. |
| 0:56.8 | The expression, fit as a trout, probably started its life in British English. |
| 1:01.6 | The first variation of the fitters a fiddle idiom. |
| 1:08.0 | Did you know there are variations? |
| 1:10.4 | Yes, Adam. I'm on the Macquarie Dictionary blog, and I'm reading that sometimes it's fit as a flea. |
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