fiddle around
摆弄,乱搞,摆弄一下,摸索
Related Words
Definitions
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- : 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.
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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.
- : to waste time; trifle; dally: Stop fiddling around and get to work.
- : British Informal. to cheat.
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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.
Phrases
- fiddle while Rome burns
- fit as a fiddle
- hang up (one's fiddle)
- play second fiddle
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.