fiddle
US: /ˈfɪdəɫ/
UK: /fˈɪdəl/
UK: /fˈɪdəl/
English Vietnamese dictionary
fiddle /'fidl/
- danh từ
- (thông tục); buồm) khoan moan (hàng hải) cái chèn, cái chốt, cái chặn
- (từ lóng) ngón lừa bịp; vố lừa bịp
- face as long as a fiddle
- mặt buồn dài thườn thượt
- fit as as fiddle
- khoẻ như vâm, rất sung sức
- to hang up one's fiddle
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) ngừng làm việc
- to hang up one's fiddle when one comes home
- ra ngoài thì tươi như hoa, về nhà thì mặt sưng mày sỉa
- to play first fiddle
- giữ vai trò chủ đạo
- to play second fiddle
- ở địa vị phụ thuộc
- ngoại động từ
- kéo viôlông (bài gì)
- (+ away) lãng phí, tiêu phí
- to fiddle away one's time: lãng phí thì giờ, làm vớ vẩn mất thì giờ
- nội động từ
- chơi viôlông; ((đùa cợt); guội gãi viôlông; cò cử viôlông
- ((thường) + about, at, with...) nghịch vớ vẩn, làm trò vớ vẩn
- to fiddle with a piece of string: nghịch vớ vẩn mẩu dây
- to fiddle about: đi vớ vẩn, đi chơi rong; ăn không ngồi rồi
- (từ lóng) lừa bịp
- thán từ
- vớ vẩn!
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb
1 [V] ~ (with sth) to keep touching or moving sth with your hands, especially because you are bored or nervous: He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.
2 [VN] (informal) to change the details or figures of sth in order to try to get money dishonestly, or gain an advantage: to fiddle the accounts + She fiddled the books (= changed a company's financial records) while working as an accountant.
3 [V] (informal) to play music on the violin
Phrasal Verbs: fiddle about / around to spend your time doing things that are not important
fiddle about / around with sth
fiddle with sth
1 to keep touching sth or making small changes to sth because you are not satisfied with it: I've been fiddling about with this design for ages, but I'm still not happy with it.
2 to touch or move the parts of sth to try to change it or repair it: He likes to fiddle around with old cars. + Who's been fiddling with the TV again?
+ noun (informal)
1 [C] = VIOLIN
2 [C] (BrE) something that is done dishonestly to get money: an insurance / tax fiddle
3 [sing.] (BrE) an act of moving sth or adjusting sth in order to make it work
4 [sing.] (BrE) something that is difficult to do
Idioms: be on the fiddle (BrE) to be doing sth dishonest to get money: Their accountant has been on the fiddle for years.
play second fiddle (to sb/sth) to be treated as less important than sb/sth; to have a less important position than sb/sth else: I'm not going to play second fiddle to anyone. + The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
more at FIT adj.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 Often, fiddle with. meddle (with), tamper (with), interfere (with), alter, falsify, fix; cheat, swindle, flimflam; Colloq finagle, Brit cook:
The treasurer had been fiddling the accounts for years.
2 Often, fiddle with or about or around. toy or trifle or fidget (with), twiddle or play or tinker (with), fool or fuss (with), Colloq mess or muck (about or around) (with), frivol (away), monkey (around) (with):
He sat there nervously fiddling with his ear. Stop fiddling about and get on with your work.
n.
3 Brit swindle, fraud, racket, thimblerig, US shell-game, Slang skin game, funny business, monkey business:
The tax inspector caught him in some fiddle with his business expenses.
4 violin, viola, viol, cello, violoncello, kit:
He played fiddle for the tsar.
Concise English dictionary
fiddles|fiddled|fiddling'fɪdl
noun
+bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
verb
+avoid (one's assigned duties)
+commit fraud and steal from one's employer
+play the violin or fiddle
+play on a violin
+manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
+play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
+try to fix or mend
