fiddle 的 3 个定义
- a musical instrument of the viol family.
- violin: Her aunt plays first fiddle with the state symphony orchestra.
- Nautical. a small ledge or barrier raised in heavy weather to keep dishes, pots, utensils, etc., from sliding off tables and stoves.
- British Informal. swindle; fraud.
fid·dled, fid·dling.
- to play on the fiddle.
- to make trifling or fussing movements with the hands: fiddling with his cuffs.
- to touch or manipulate something, as to operate or adjust it; tinker: You may have to fiddle with the antenna to get a clear picture on the TV.
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fid·dled, fid·dling.
- to play on a fiddle.
- to trifle or waste: to fiddle time away.
- Bookbinding. to bind together by threading a cord through holes cut lengthwise into the back.
- British Informal. to falsify: to fiddle the account books.to cheat: to fiddle the company out of expense money.
fiddle 近义词
mess with, tinker
由fiddle构成的短语
- fiddle while Rome burns
- fit as a fiddle
- hang up (one's fiddle)
- play second fiddle
更多fiddle例句
- Bill had planned to release songs Eva recorded with a fiddle player and that had a western swing feel.
- On Wall Street, Bank of America plays a perpetual second fiddle to JPMorgan Chase Co., the only U.S. bank that holds more assets.
- "He looked at it and he started to fiddle with the cable," Mrs. Perez told The Telegraph.
- Willie Polk played the fiddle and another boy, call him Shoefus, played the guitar, like I did.
- His dad, an electrical engineer, was always bringing home technology that the young Sapan would fiddle with.
- There the lingua franca is Cajun French, and folks love to fiddle, dance and most of all, eat.
- Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan."
- Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
- A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
- Fiddle-cases seem to have been used almost solely for travelling purposes.
- Then you'll concide that you are there but you oughtn't to be, and kind of slide out without your hat and forget your fiddle.