"The boss seems to be ..... while Rome burns

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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"The boss seems to be ..... while Rome burns. He is going out to lunches, having meetings, talking about proposals as well as everything else he usually does. Meanwhile, the company is going bankrupt since we didn't keep up with the ever-changing technology," Laurie said to Morgan. (*) building (*) sleeping (*) fiddling (*) eating

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I thought would be “sleeping”, but the correct answer is “fiddling”. Could someone say why? Thanks.

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Because ‘to fiddle while Rome burns is an idiom’.

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