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fiddle English

Meaning fiddle meaning

What does fiddle mean?
Definitions in simple English

fiddle Noun

— A fiddle is a violin when played in a style not like the classical violin. When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.

fiddle Verb

— To play without working. You're fiddling your life away. — To fiddle with something is try to make something work by adjusting it. I needed to fiddle with my computer's speakers to get them to work. Fred was fired when he was caught fiddling with the bank books. — To play traditional songs on a violin in a style not like classical music.

fiddle

— noun (= violin) 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 — verb play on a violin Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely — verb play the violin or fiddle — verb (= shirk) avoid (one's assigned duties) The derelict soldier shirked his duties — verb commit fraud and steal from one's employer We found out that she had been fiddling for years — verb (= 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 — verb (= tamper) 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 — verb (= tinker) 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

Synonyms fiddle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fiddle?

fiddle English » English

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Topics fiddle topics

What do people use fiddle to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity Music

Musical instrument

Conjugation fiddle conjugation

How do you conjugate fiddle?

fiddle · verb

Examples fiddle examples

How do I use fiddle in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you're going to fiddle with sentences, at least do it correctly.
You're certainly looking fit as a fiddle today.
Nero did not actually fiddle while Rome burned.
Tom seems to be as fit as a fiddle.
I won't play second fiddle for anyone.
The boy's as fit as a fiddle!
Tom is as fit as a fiddle.
Tom loves playing Irish tunes on the fiddle.

Movie subtitles

So far, you've been a fiddle.
He said Mr. Holmes was playing the fiddle the whole night.
And I'm not going on to play second fiddle to any cheap English ham.
I'LL SHOW 'EM THEY CAN'T FIDDLE AROUND WITH OLD FIREFLY.
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war!
Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee! Fun for men, you mean.
Oh, fiddle-dee-dee! Why we have to wheel a baby when we have servants.
But for a few fiddle-faddles.
The best soldier has no more notion of government than an ox has in playing the fiddle.
Nonsense, you look as fit as a fiddle.
Well, he says I'm fit as a fiddle.
Of a summer night, young men would bring an orchestra under a pretty girl's window a flute, harp, fiddle, cello, coronet, bass viole, would presently release their melodies to the dulcet stars.
Took a bit too much to drink the other night right out here, - and stepped clean through the bass fiddle that was serenading' her! - Well, well.
Fact is, I believe if he hadn't broken that bass fiddle, Isabel never would have taken Wilbur. Heh, what do you think, Wilbur?
With his fiddle I killed him.
I've played second fiddle on this ship long enough.
Hi diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, this time I think we go through the middle.
I'll show them they can't fiddle with old Firefly.
You can flog those fellows, starve them but they'll bob up again with a fiddle.
For two years I played second fiddle to this paper!
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. So, you fiddle while Rome burns.
And what are you doing with that inferno fiddle, with those flies?
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Fiddle-dee-dee!
Fiddle-dee-dee, Melly.
Oh, fiddle-dee-dee!
Oh, fiddle the horses.
Because I wouldn't stay and be second fiddle?
What are you doing with my fiddle?
No, fiddle-faddle.
Fit as a fiddle.
It was kept by an old Italian who used to play the fiddle at La Scala.
How'd he fiddle the permit?
And remember, Lockwood, you might be trading that fiddle in for a harp.
Oh, Mary, of all the impossible, childish fiddle-faddle.
You played your fiddle?

News and current affairs

Common money makes these regions safe for investors, reflected in lower interest rates and higher growth; risk premiums are compressed because these countries no longer have central banks or exchange rates to fiddle.
He was chosen for his unquestioning loyalty, and it is difficult to envisage Putin playing second fiddle to a man who has been his underling for 18 years.
Indeed, China had shunned Japan's 1997 proposal to create an Asian Monetary Fund precisely because it worried that it would play second fiddle.

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