Lexic.us

Definition of Second fiddle

1. Noun. Someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role.

2. Noun. A secondary role or function. "He hated to play second fiddle to anyone"

Definition of Second fiddle

1. Noun. (music) A fiddle part in harmony to the first fiddle. ¹

2. Noun. (music) The person playing second fiddle. ¹

3. Noun. (idiomatic) A sidekick or subordinate, or the role of such a person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Fiddle

second best second childhood second conditional second countable second cousin second cousin once removed second cousins second cranial nerve second cuneiform bone second deck

second degree A-V block second degree burn second down second estate second fiddle (current term) second fiddles second finger second freedom rights second gas effect second gear

second gears second grade second grades second growth second guess second guessed second guesser second guessers second guesses

Literary usage of Second fiddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1896)
"We none of us like to play second fiddle. To play second fiddle to a young woman is an ... There could be no doubt that he was playing second fiddle to ..."

2. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 by Philip Hone (1889)
"Mr. Gilmor said he played second fiddle to no man; all he wished to do was to stop the music of a man " Who, in the space of one revolving moon, ..."

3. Oral English in Secondary Schools by William Palmer Smith (1913)
"... to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. second fiddle l From MESSAGE AND MELODY. ..."

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