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why fiddlestick's end?
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When somebody is thought to be wounded and the doctor comes and says "a fiddlestick's end", what does it mean? and why "fiddlestick"?
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'Fiddlesticks' or 'fiddlestick's end' has been used to mean something insignificant or 'nothing-at-all' since the 1600s. I suppose the idea is that - when you've reached the end of anything - you've reached 'no thing'. It can be used dismissively in all sorts of situations and not just medical ones.
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