单词 | second fiddle |
释义 | second fiddleSEE SYNONYMS FOR second fiddle ON THESAURUS.COM nouna secondary role: to play second fiddle to another person. a person serving in a subsidiary capacity, especially to one immediately superior. Origin of second fiddleFirst recorded in 1825–35 Words nearby second fiddlesecond division, seconde, secondee, Second Empire, second estate, second fiddle, second floor, second-foot, second-generation, second growth, second-guess Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for second fiddle
British Dictionary definitions for second fiddlesecond fiddle noun informal
a secondary status a person who has a secondary status Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with second fiddlesecond fiddle see play second fiddle. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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