Fiddlestick’s End (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Fiddlestick’s End

Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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