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fiddle while Rome burns to spend time enjoying yourself or doing things that are not important when you should be dealing with a serious problem. Environmentalists claim that the government is fiddling while Rome burns. |
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But we must wince when the Holocaust is used as a comparable dramatic ploy, for to commit such artistic cynicism is to fiddle while Rome burns. ``We cannot afford to fiddle while Rome burns,'' Knowles said. |
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fiddle while Rome burns
