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Literature | Devil rides on a Fiddlestick (The). Much ado about nothing. Beaumont and Fletcher, Shakespeare, and others, use the phrase. "Fiddlesticks!" as an exclamation, means rubbish! nonsense! When the prince and his merry companions are at the Boar's Head, first Bardolph rushes in to warn them that the sheriff's officers are at hand, and anon enters the hostess to put her guests on their guard. But the prince says, "Here's a devil of a row to make about a trifle" (or "The devil rides on a fiddlestick") (1 Henry IV., ii. 2), and hiding some of his companions, he stoutly faces the sheriff's officers and browbeats them. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 56 49 4C 52 49 44 45 53 4F 4E 41 46 49 44 44 4C 45 53 54 49 43 4B |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01001100 00100000 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010011 00100000 01001111 01001110 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000110 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E V I L   R I D E S   O N   A   F I D D L E S T I C K |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0056 0049 004C 0052 0049 0044 0045 0053 004F 004E 0041 0046 0049 0044 0044 004C 0045 0053 0054 0049 0043 004B |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3839564346252433839532494823524043383846395354433745 |
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