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Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense fiddles, present participle fiddling, past tense, past participle fiddled

1. verb

If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers.

Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk. [VERB + with]

Synonyms: fidget, play, finger, toy More Synonyms of fiddle

2. verb

If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways.

She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling withit. [VERB + with]

3. verb

If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it.

He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show. [VERB + with]

Synonyms: tinker, adjust, interfere, mess about or around More Synonyms of fiddle

4. verb

If someone fiddles financial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves.

[British, informal]

He's been fiddling the books. [VERB noun]

Stop fiddling your expenses account. [VERB noun]

Synonyms: cheat, cook [informal], fix, manoeuvre [informal] More Synonyms of fiddle

5. countable noun [oft supplement NOUN]

A fiddle is a dishonest action or scheme in which someone gets money for themselves.

[British, informal]

Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.

...legitimate businesses that act as covers for tax fiddles.

Synonyms: fraud, racket, scam [slang], piece of sharp practice More Synonyms of fiddle

6. singular noun [a NOUN]

If something is a fiddle, it is quite difficult to do because it involves small or complicated objects.

[British, informal]

I found out how to fix the tray on–a bit of a fiddle.

7. variable noun

Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music.

Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.

Synonyms: violin More Synonyms of fiddle

See fit as a fiddle

See on the fiddle

10.

See fiddle while Rome burns

11.

See to play second fiddle

Phrasal verbs:

See fiddle around

All related terms of 'fiddle'

单词	fiddle
释义	Trends of fiddle View usage for: fiddle (fɪdəl) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense fiddles, present participle fiddling, past tense, past participle fiddled 1. verb If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers. Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk. [VERB + with] Synonyms: fidget, play, finger, toy More Synonyms of fiddle 2. verb If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways. She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling withit. [VERB + with] 3. verb If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it. He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show. [VERB + with] Synonyms: tinker, adjust, interfere, mess about or around More Synonyms of fiddle 4. verb If someone fiddles financial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves. [British, informal] He's been fiddling the books. [VERB noun] Stop fiddling your expenses account. [VERB noun] Synonyms: cheat, cook [informal], fix, manoeuvre [informal] More Synonyms of fiddle 5. countable noun [oft supplement NOUN] A fiddle is a dishonest action or scheme in which someone gets money for themselves. [British, informal] Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday. ...legitimate businesses that act as covers for tax fiddles. Synonyms: fraud, racket, scam [slang], piece of sharp practice More Synonyms of fiddle 6. singular noun [a NOUN] If something is a fiddle, it is quite difficult to do because it involves small or complicated objects. [British, informal] I found out how to fix the tray on–a bit of a fiddle. 7. variable noun Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances. Synonyms: violin More Synonyms of fiddle 8. See fit as a fiddle 9. See on the fiddle 10. See fiddle while Rome burns 11. See to play second fiddle Phrasal verbs: See fiddle around fiddle in British English (ˈfɪdəl) noun 1. informal any instrument of the viol or violin family, esp the violin 2. a violin played as a folk instrument 3. time-wasting or trifling behaviour; nonsense; triviality 4. nautical a small railing around the top of a table to prevent objects from falling off it in bad weather 5. British informal an illegal or fraudulent transaction or arrangement 6. British informal a manually delicate or tricky operation 7. at the fiddle 8. face as long as a fiddle 9. fit as a fiddle 10. play second fiddle verb 11. to play (a tune) on the fiddle 12. (intransitive; often foll by with) to make restless or aimless movements with the hands 13. (when intr, often foll by about or around) informal to spend (time) or act in a careless or inconsequential manner; waste (time) 14. (often foll by with) informal to tamper or interfere (with) 15. informal to contrive to do (something) by illicit means or deception they fiddled their way into a position of trust 16. (transitive) informal to falsify (accounts, etc); swindle Word origin Old English fithele, probably from Medieval Latin vītula, from Latin vītulārī to celebrate; compare Old High German fidula fiddle; see viola1 fiddle in American English (ˈfɪdəl) noun 1. Informal any stringed instrument played with a bow, esp. the violin 2. US, Slang a petty swindle 3. Nautical a frame or railing on a ship's table to keep dishes, etc. from sliding off in rough weather verb transitiveWord forms: ˈfiddled or ˈfiddling 4. Informal to play (a tune) on a fiddle 5. Slang to swindle in a petty way verb intransitive 6. Informal to play a fiddle 7. to play or tinker (with), esp. in a nervous way Idioms: fiddle around fiddle away fit as a fiddle Word origin ME fithele < OE < VL vitula < L vitulari, to rejoice: vi- (< IE woi-, wi-, outcry > OE wi, Gr ia) + ? base of tollere, to raise, exalt More idioms containing fiddle fit as a fiddle play second fiddle be on the fiddle fiddle while Rome burns Image of fiddle © Maxim Lysenko, Shutterstock Examples of 'fiddle' in a sentence fiddle It would not fiddle around the edges but pile into the heart of the beast. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Make it clear you aren't prepared to play second fiddle to anyone. The Sun (2016) They were a rock band, but one with a fiddle player as frontman. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But he's not resigned to playing second fiddle to the captain, far from it. Times, Sunday Times (2016) So my friend's daughter had to walk around like a target with 700 in her bag presumably so that a shameless landlord could fiddle his tax. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They have learned second fiddle by playing in the gaps between the comings and goings of staffers. Christianity Today (2000) The rest is fiddling around the edges. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The dangers of fiddling further with tax relief like this are threefold. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She fiddled about with guitar leads and made goofy faces. Times, Sunday Times (2012) They run a family business in which senior members of the family have been fiddling the accounts. Times, Sunday Times (2007) The small ones are a lot of stone and skin and fiddling about. The Sun (2014) But show bosses are now fiddling around with the timeline to make it fluid enough for him to reappear. The Sun (2014) They are rebuked swiftly for fiddling with pens or not paying attention as the teacher fires questions to test their knowledge. Times, Sunday Times (2009) IT'S not easy playing second fiddle. The Sun (2013) He has fiddled with the music. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The only danger is you may end up spending more time fiddling with buttons and poring over data than you do outdoors. The Sun (2016) Seeking to constrain the supply of new properties and fiddling with the tax system at the margins is not a housing policy. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Since then, he has always played second fiddle. Times, Sunday Times (2008) While he waited for me he was in the sitting room, fiddling with his guitar. Times, Sunday Times (2007) This probably wasn't the first time life fiddled with the thermostat. Oliver Morton Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet (2007) And she will be on banjo and fiddle again, after putting them to one side for the solo album. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times (2012) There were doors on both sides of the corridor and a man was fiddling with the lock of one them about twenty feet in front of me. Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993) The judges see acts as diverse as brass bands, a harmonica and beat box player and a 21-year-old fiddle player. The Sun (2010) He was once observed listening to one of Scotland's leading fiddle players with tears of emotion running down his face. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But the band began to gel and the unlikely blend of African rhythm, folk fiddle and classical cadences to work its whimsical magic. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Cats composed tunes on fiddles, making music that only I could hear. Travers, P L What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story (1989) Word lists with fiddle instrument In other languages fiddle British English: fiddle VERB to fiddle with sth If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers. She fiddled with a pen on the desk. American English: fiddle Brazilian Portuguese: tamborilar com os dedos Chinese: 不停摆弄 European Spanish: juguetear French: jouer German: herumspielen mit Italian: giocherellare Japanese: いじくる Korean: 만지작거리다 European Portuguese: tamborilar com os dedos Latin American Spanish: juguetear British English: fiddle NOUN Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music. He played the fiddle at local dances. American English: fiddle Brazilian Portuguese: rabeca Chinese: 小提琴 European Spanish: violín French: violon German: Fiedel Italian: violino Japanese: バイオリン弾き Korean: 바이올린 European Portuguese: rabeca Latin American Spanish: violín All related terms of 'fiddle' bass fiddle a stringed instrument, the largest and lowest member of the violin family. Range: almost three octaves upwards from E in the space between the fourth and fifth leger lines below the bass staff. It is normally bowed in classical music, but it is very common in a jazz or dance band, where it is practically always played pizzicato bull fiddle → double bass fiddle away to waste (time) fiddle-back a chair with a fiddle-shaped back fiddle around If you fiddle around or fiddle about with a machine, you do things to it to try and make it work. fiddle-faddle trivial matter; nonsense second fiddle the second violin in a string quartet or one of the second violins in an orchestra fiddle expenses Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards . fiddle pattern the style of a spoon or fork with a violin-shaped handle at the fiddle engaged in an illegal or fraudulent undertaking fiddle-de-dee an exclamation of impatience , disbelief , or disagreement on the fiddle If someone is on the fiddle , they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things. be on the fiddle to be getting money dishonestly, for example by cheating with the accounts at work fit as a fiddle Someone who is as fit as a fiddle is very healthy and full of energy . play second fiddle to have to accept that you are less important than someone else to play second fiddle If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together . fiddle while Rome burns If you say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns , you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult or dangerous situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong . face as long as a fiddle a dismal or gloomy facial expression Chinese translation of 'fiddle' fiddle (ˈfɪdl) n (c) (Mus) 小提琴 (xiǎotíqín) (把, bǎ) (Brit, inf, = fraud, swindle) 诓(誆)骗(騙) (kuāngpiàn) vt (Brit, inf) [books, accounts, taxes] 篡改 (cuàngǎi) tax fiddle 骗(騙)税(稅) (piàn shuì) 1 (noun) in the sense of fraud Definition a dishonest action or scheme (British, informal) legitimate businesses that act as a cover for tax fiddles Synonyms fraud a fraud involving pension and social security claims racket a racket selling counterfeit phones scam (slang) The duo set up a scam to settle their respective debts. piece of sharp practice fix sting (informal) a sting set by the FBI graft (informal) swindle He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle. wangle (informal) 2 (noun) in the sense of violin (informal) He played the fiddle at local dances. Synonyms violin 1 (verb) in the sense of fidget (informal She fiddled with a pen on the desk. Synonyms fidget The children began to fidget. play He's not working, he's just playing around. finger toy tamper trifle mess about or around 2 (verb) in the sense of tinker (informal He fiddled with the radio dial. Synonyms tinker Instead of admitting their error, they just tinkered with the problem. adjust interfere mess about or around 3 (verb) in the sense of cheat Definition to falsify (accounts) (informal) Stop fiddling your expenses account. Synonyms cheat He cheated people out of their life savings. cook (informal) fix They offered players bribes to fix a league match. manoeuvre (informal) You manoeuvred things in similar situations in the past. graft (informal) diddle (informal) wangle (informal) She managed to wangle a free ticket for me. gerrymander finagle (informal) idiom See fit as a fiddle Additional synonyms in the sense of fix Definition to unfairly influence the outcome of They offered players bribes to fix a league match. Synonyms rig, set up (informal), influence, manipulate, bribe, manoeuvre, fiddle (informal), pull strings (informal) in the sense of manoeuvre Definition to manipulate a situation in order to gain some advantage You manoeuvred things in similar situations in the past. Synonyms manipulate, arrange, organize, devise, manage, set up, engineer, fix (informal), orchestrate, contrive, stage-manage in the sense of play Definition to behave carelessly He's not working, he's just playing around. Synonyms fool around, toy, fiddle, trifle, mess around, take something lightly Synonyms of 'fiddle' fiddle Explore 'fiddle' in the dictionary Additional synonyms in the sense of racket Definition an illegal activity done to make money a racket selling counterfeit phones Synonyms fraud, scheme, criminal activity, fraudulent scheme, illegal enterprise in the sense of scam Definition a stratagem for gain The duo set up a scam to settle their respective debts. Synonyms swindle, fiddle (British, informal), racket, stratagem, diddle in the sense of sting Definition a deceptive trick a sting set by the FBI Synonyms fraud, swindle, cheat, trickery, sharp practice, piece of deception in the sense of swindle Definition an instance of cheating someone out of money He fled to Switzerland rather than face trial for a tax swindle. Synonyms fraud, fiddle (British, informal), rip-off (slang), racket, scam (slang), sting (informal), deception, imposition, deceit, trickery, double-dealing, con trick (informal), sharp practice, swizzle (British, informal), knavery, swizz (British, informal), roguery, fastie (Australian, slang) in the sense of toy Synonyms fiddle, play (informal) in the sense of wangle Definition to get (something) by cunning or devious methods She managed to wangle a free ticket for me. Synonyms contrive, engineer, fix (informal), arrange, manipulate, work (informal), manoeuvre, pull off, fiddle (informal), bring off, finagle (informal), scheme
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