| second fiddle | a secondary role or function, he hated to play second fiddle to anyone |
bass fiddle bass viol bull fiddle double bass contrabass string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
violin fiddle | bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family, this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow |
balderdash fiddle-faddle piffle | trivial nonsense |
second fiddle second banana | someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role |
tinker fiddle | try to fix or mend, Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right, She always fiddles with her van on the weekend |
twiddle fiddle with | manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner, He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview |
| tamper fiddle monkey c | play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly, Someone tampered with the documents on my desk, The reporter fiddle with the facts |
toy fiddle diddle play | manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination, She played nervously with her wedding ring, Don't fiddle with the screws, He played with the idea of running for the Senate |
| fiddle | play on a violin, Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely |
| fiddle | play the violin or fiddle |
| fiddle | commit fraud and steal from one's employer, We found out that she had been fiddling for years |
fiddle shirk shrink from goldbrick | avoid (one's assigned duties), The derelict soldier shirked his duties |
a fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial aa | (informal) small and of little importance, a fiddling sum of money, a footling gesture, our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war, a little (or small) matter, a dispute over niggling details, limited to petty enterprises, piffling efforts, giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction |
pandurate panduriform fiddle-shaped | (of a leaf shape) having rounded ends and a contracted center |