fiddleverb
uk/ˈfɪd.əl/us/ˈfɪd.əl/fiddle verb (CHEAT)
[ T ] UK informal to act dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage:
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
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fiddle verb (MOVE ABOUT)
[ I ] to move things about or touch things with no particular purpose:
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Touching & feeling
- dab
- feel
- feel your way idiom
- fiddle (around) with sth
- finger
- hand
- hand to hand idiom
- handle
- haptic
- kinaesthesia
- lick
- nudge
- pat
- paw
- play
- play with sth
- tactile
- tap
- toy
- toy with sth
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fiddle verb (INSTRUMENT)
[ I ] informal to play the violin
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Playing music
- accompaniment
- accompany
- busk
- chop
- conduct
- fingering
- improvisation
- interpreter
- jam
- music
- perform
- raise the roof idiom
- serenade
- sight-read
- strike
- strum
- swell
- tap sth out
- tune
- virtuoso
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Phrasal verb(s)
fiddlenoun
uk/ˈfɪd.əl/us/ˈfɪd.əl/fiddle noun (INSTRUMENT)
[ C ] informal a violin :
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Musical instruments
- accordion
- alphorn
- alto
- alto recorder
- bagpipes
- dulcimer
- English horn
- euphonium
- fingerboard
- flugelhorn
- pick
- pitched
- plectrum
- reed
- reed instrument
- viol
- viola
- violin
- violoncello
- vuvuzela
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fiddle noun (DIFFICULTY)
[ S ] UK informal something difficult to do, especially because the things involved are small or need careful use of the fingers:
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Difficult things and people
- a (heavy) cross to bear idiom
- a bitter pill (to swallow) idiom
- a hard/tough nut to crack idiom
- albatross
- bane
- chill
- equation
- handicap
- hiccup
- hot potato
- impediment
- job
- labyrinth
- liability
- nut
- the chill wind of sth idiom
- the hard way idiom
- the sharp end
- the/a devil of a sth idiom
- thorn in your flesh/side idiom
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fiddle noun (DISHONEST BEHAVIOUR)
[ C or U ] UK informal something dishonest that someone does in order to get money or other advantages:
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
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