But I wasn't fooled by that tarradiddle about the cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silicon Mage]

O Lady Lufton! have you not written a tarradiddle to your friend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

‘There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caldigate] Reference

He abandoned the tarradiddle and to the measureless astonishment of the shopkeeper threw himself into an impersonation of Miss Trapp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de Force]

He left Rodd on guard over his wife and went down to the shop, full of a tarradiddle about an Inglese who had recommended him to buy a similar knife to one purchased that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de Force]

The tarradiddle was not entirely lucid, since his attempts at the Spanish-Italian argot of the island consisted in speaking very loudly in pidgin-English and adding an ‘a’ after arbitrarily chosen syllables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de Force]

"But what is the difference between a lie and a tarradiddle?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

'There is to be a little tarradiddle told, and I am to tell it?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caldigate] Reference

O Lady Lufton! have you not now written a tarradiddle to your friend?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

A tarradiddle is what you say when you are, so to speak, took by surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

He asked me in, but I went on to the little railway town, repeated my tarradiddle at its "hotel," and soon was asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flower of the Chapdelaines] Reference

This may quite easily be (to begin with) an entertaining tarradiddle of Sam's own invention, told, like many other even more improbable stories, solely to amuse Mr. Pickwick.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference

He says that all I have said about his being serious is a tarradiddle; but that nothing can be more true than what I have said about your friends loving you, and wishing to have you here again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference

Lady Lufton! did it not occur to you when you wrote those last words, intending that they should have so strong an effect on the mind of your correspondent, that you were telling a-- tarradiddle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

Lady Lufton's tarradiddle was of a nature that is usually considered excusable -- at least with grown people; but, nevertheless, she would have been nearer to perfection could she have confined herself to the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

As an example of how anything can be twisted to make mischief, I may quote here an absurd tarradiddle about Mrs. Kendal never forgetting in after years that in the Bristol stock company she had to play the singing fairy to my Titania in “A Midsummer Night's Dream.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life]

In vain Kettle pleaded "fo 'Gord --" always a forerunner of a tarradiddle -- that he "didn't have no notion on the blessed yearth as Miss Betty would mind," and also wept copiously when Mrs. Fortescue frankly told him that he was a tarradiddler, and made, for the hundredth time, a very awful threat to Kettle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty at Fort Blizzard] Reference

“The story of Wutherwood promising to pay up is without doubt a tarradiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Peer]

“I think,” she murmured, “that it’s almost certain to be a tarradiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

“All that fatuous tarradiddle,” Dr. Otterly suddenly fulminated, “about where he was during the triple sword-dance!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

Well, to be sure, perhaps I told a bit of a tarradiddle when I was a small child; but an out-and-out lie -- never, thank the Almighty! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

I can't quite explain, miss; I suppose there's scarcely any one who hasn't been guilty of a tarradiddle; but a lie -- a thought-out lie -- never. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

Now, my dear Roderick Alleyn, you may be as cross with me as you please, but I really could not allow this nonsensical tarradiddle to meander on for another second.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

Lufton’s tarradiddle was of a nature that is usually considered excusable — at least with grown-up people; but, nevertheless, she would have been nearer to perfection could she have confined herself to the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

"If I could have fetched it to my mind," she said, "that Squire Darling were a tarradiddle, and all his wenches liars -- which some of them be, and no mistake -- and if I could refuse my own eyes about gold-lace, and crown jewels, and arms off, happier would I sleep in my bed, ma'am, every night the Lord seeth good for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

It must be a tarradiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killer Dolphin]

Alleyn embarked on a careful tarradiddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

“that Squire Darling were a tarradiddle, and all his wenches liars — which some of them be, and no mistake — and if I could refuse my own eyes about gold-lace, and crown jewels, and arms off, happier would I sleep in my bed, ma’am, every night the Lord seeth good for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven] Reference

A — tarradiddle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

"What tarradiddle is this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference

"It's not even a tarradiddle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

Course -- say "fib" or "tarradiddle,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference

"Well; -- I told him a tarradiddle of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

“Well; — I told him a tarradiddle of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference