How To Use Second fiddle In A Sentence
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They have learned second fiddle by playing in the gaps between the comings and goings of staffers.
Christianity Today
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The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
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Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hapless young romantics do their best as second fiddles.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the plot plays second fiddle to the banter.
The Sun
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Since then, he has always played second fiddle.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was ably supported by his partner who was quite happy to play second fiddle, taking 47 balls for his five runs.
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Ever since Trish had made it clear she was through playing second fiddle to his job, or what she called his obsession, and walked out, his social life had been so close to nonexistent that the difference hardly mattered.
Gage Butler's Reckoning
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The cheeky glove puppet fox hosts a variety and sketch show format - a procession of comic stooges play straight man and second fiddle to his antics.
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IT'S not easy playing second fiddle.
The Sun
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Arriaga was second fiddle in a string quartet at nine years of age, and two years later wrote an octet.
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Vollmar, for example, who in his own land possesses so great an influence that he has been called the uncrowned king of Bavaria, cannot consent to play second fiddle in the German national organization.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
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The hapless young romantics do their best as second fiddles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though mannequins are fixtures at most clothing retailers, they usually end up playing a sad second fiddle to the duds they display.
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In royal life the consort has a great deal to put up with, playing second fiddle.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he's not resigned to playing second fiddle to the captain, far from it.
Times, Sunday Times
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he hated to play second fiddle to anyone
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But the plot plays second fiddle to the banter.
The Sun
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Make it clear you aren't prepared to play second fiddle to anyone.
The Sun
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But he's not resigned to playing second fiddle to the captain, far from it.
Times, Sunday Times
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All that foreign interference accomplishes is to reinforce the idea that the Middle East (once seat of the vast, powerful, hugely influential Ottoman Empire) must now play second fiddle to the West.
Wonk Room » Open Letter To Robert Kagan
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The narrative in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.
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Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Make it clear you aren't prepared to play second fiddle to anyone.
The Sun
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After years of playing second fiddle to margarine and spread, butter is back and there are lots to choose from.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have learned second fiddle by playing in the gaps between the comings and goings of staffers.
Christianity Today
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—that is to say, a self-contained but slightly smug little kid called Wolfie—plays second fiddle to his older sister in René Féret's beguiling celebration, in French with English subtitles, of the family's other prodigy.
'One Day': A Stutter-Stop Affair to Forget
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It was the day when the second fiddle became the leader of the orchestra.
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I have no intention of playing second fiddle to the new director, so I've resigned.
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He kept shtum and didn't embarrass her once for the following 11 years and, instead, contented himself with being an almost mute second fiddle to a woman of whom he was inordinately proud.
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“Fostering collaborative structures, where hierarchy plays second fiddle to flexibility, is seen as a way to attract the best graduates,” Woodward says.
Why Generation Y matters « pwcom 2.0
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Pity the poor orchestra having to play second fiddle to that load of rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since then, he has always played second fiddle.
Times, Sunday Times
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IT'S not easy playing second fiddle.
The Sun
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Being a modest person, he was content to play second fiddle to others.
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Jimmy Shergil is fed up playing second fiddle to heroes in films.
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Unlike her Egyptian opposite number, Cleopatra, to whom she was forced to play second fiddle both over the next decade and in historical memory, Livia Drusilla was not bred into the role of imperial dynast, but nor was she an outsider to the Roman political establishment.
Caesars’ Wives
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And hope you stayed to the end to see a cameo from the great John Amos, playing second fiddle to a dog named Stanley.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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In royal life the consort has a great deal to put up with, playing second fiddle.
Times, Sunday Times