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to fiddle while Rome burn
[play] {one's} [fiddle] while Rome [burn]to fiddle while rome burn
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to neglect important issues and handle less important ones instead
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Idiom
Voorbeelden
Climate change is upon us and our leaders just fiddle while Rome burns.
Environmentalists claimed governments were fiddling while Rome burned.
