Fiddle

//ˈfɪd(ə)l//

"Fiddle" in a Sentence (33 examples)

You're certainly looking fit as a fiddle today.

He's definitely the right guy for the job. Let him fiddle with a computer and he perks right up.

It's a fiddle going to and fro between the keyboard and mouse so are there shortcuts to allow operation using only the keyboard?

Nero did not actually fiddle while Rome burned.

Tom seems to be as fit as a fiddle.

I won't play second fiddle to anyone.

Tom loves playing Irish tunes on the fiddle.

Tom didn't want to play second fiddle.

Tom wants to be able to play the fiddle as well as Mary.

Tom wants to be able to play the fiddle as well as Mary does.

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...Of harpe & of salteriun. of fiðele & of coriun...

Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard 'Cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia an' the Devil deals the cards...

When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.

The fiddle of these early times, however, was the viol and not our modern violin.

He is first fiddle in the band.

You would not have your Son the Fiddle to every jovial Company.

There was some kind of fiddle going on at that company, and several of the directors were arrested.

Says Bevin: 'I want peace... and we shan't get it unless we deal with one another as friends. I will be a party to no fiddles.'

I know you'll think this is one of my fiddles. At my last parish we raffled a horse and trap,... a clothes horse and a mousetrap.

That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.

Most people are quite careful about buying appliances. When looking at TVs for instance you might look for a particular brand, peruse the definition and colors on the screen, and maybe even have a fiddle with the remote.

The meal is served on special trays which slot into the arms of airline-type seats of the passenger coaches. The trays have fiddles for each of the plates, cups and glasses, and the crockery is so well-designed that it is seldom any of the contents get spilled.

Done at a fiddle.

to fiddle while Rome burns

Themistocles […] said he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city.

Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.

Sit up straight and stop fiddling!

Loke you fydell nat with your handes whan your maister speketh to you.

[…] talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers […]

Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.

I don't exactly know how to fix this lawnmower; I'm really just fiddling.

A cake-seller told me that a little while before I saw him a lad of twelve or so had consumed a shilling’s worth of cakes and pastry, as he had got a shilling by “fiddling;” not, be it understood, by the exercise of any musical skill, for “fiddling,” among the initiated, means the holding of horses, or the performing of any odd jobs.

Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.

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