second fiddle

副手,二把手,二等奖,次要地位

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person.
- : a person serving in a subsidiary capacity, especially to one immediately superior.

nounsecondary role player

Synonyms

Gunshots rang out in Paris this morning on a second day of deadly violence that has stunned the French capital.
And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!
A second document was titled: “Gambia Reborn: A Charter for Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy and Development.”
If 29 vote for someone else, the race for speaker goes to a second ballot for the first time in almost 100 years.
At least 29 fellow Republicans must vote against Boehner for a second ballot to be reached, and that seems very unlikely.
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
He set down as the second the golden rule, “Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them.”