second fiddle
Noun
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Noun
second fiddle (plural second fiddles)
- (music) A fiddle part in harmony to the first fiddle.
- The second fiddle on that tune is almost as hard as the first fiddle.
- (music) The person playing second fiddle.
- I've been second fiddle in that orchestra for ten years now.
- (idiomatic) A sidekick or subordinate, or the role of such a person.
- I'm tired of being your second fiddle!
- 1987, Joyce Brandon, Lady and the Lawman (page 346)
- Listen, buttercup, you're damned good in bed. They don't come any better, but I'm really not interested in playing second fiddle to your camera or your young lovers.
- fiddle
- first fiddle
- lead fiddle
- play second fiddle
- French: second violon
- Italian: secondo violino
- Russian: втора́я скри́пка
- Italian: secondo violino
- Russian: втора́я скри́пка
- Italian: spalla
- Russian: втора́я скри́пка
- Spanish: subordinado
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