Phrases.com »

Phrases related to: play first fiddle Page #7

Yee yee! We've found 466 phrases and idioms matching play first fiddle.

Sort:RelevancyA - Z
Christmas graduateA freshman who drops out of college at the end of the first semester.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
chrome hornThe front bumper of a car when used to bump another vehicle, usually to inform the driver of the other vehicle, that the first car would like to pass.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
come stàAn instruction to play without improvised ornamentation or rhythmic alteration.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
coup de foudreA sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
coup de foudrebolt from the blue; love at first sightRate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
crack-upOne can 'crack-up' emotionally with laughter or tears as a result of an observation, a joke, a story, a scene, a sequence in a movie, opera, stage play or animal, baby or children;s antics:Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
curtain-raiserIn a theater, an initial play, musical performance, etc which precedes the main performance.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
dip a toe intoTo enter or get involved in tentatively and for the first time.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
dire tantôt blanc, tantôt noirTo say first one thing and then another.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
docere aliquem fidibusto teach some one to play a stringed instrument.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
don't put your cart before the horseThe same as saying, "First things first"; asserts that there is a certain order in which things happen and that the listener should consider that before going forward (outside of that order) regarding the matter at handRate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
draw stumpsTo declare an end to the days play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
effeuiller la margueriteTo play "she loves me, she loves me not".Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
elementa et tamquam semina rerumthe elements and first beginnings.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
elle a deux enfants du premier litShe has two children by her first husband.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
elle est ma nièce à la mode de bretagneShe is the daughter of my first cousin.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
elle est ma tante à la mode de bretagneShe is my father’s (or, mother’s) first cousin; She is my first cousin once removed.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
eye-openerAn alcoholic beverage consumed first thing in the morning.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fabula, ludus scaenicusthe piece; the play.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fabulam agereto act a play (said of the actors).Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fabulam dareto produce a play (of the writer).Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fabulam edereto bring out a play, put it on the stage (used of the man who finds the money).Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)to hiss a play.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
faceplantThe act of landing face first, often associated with bailing during extreme sports.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
faire l'école buissonnièreTo play truant.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
faire l'homme d'importanceTo play the consequential; To give oneself airs; To be pompous.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
faire les cent coupsTo amuse oneself noisily; To play all sorts of tricks.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
faire un tour d'écolierTo play a schoolboy trick.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
feed a cold, starve a feverEating more will cure the common cold, and eating less will cure a fever.1887, J. H. Whelan, "The Treatment of Colds.", The Practitioner, vol. 38, pg. 180:"Feed a cold, starve a fever." There is a deal of wisdom in the first part of this advice. A person with a catarrh should take an abundance of light nutritious food, and some light wine, but avoid spirits, and above all tobacco.1968, Katinka Loeser, The Archers at Home, publ. Atheneum, New York, pg. 60:I have a cold. 'Feed a cold, starve a fever.' You certainly know that.2009, Shelly Reuben, Tabula Rasa, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 015101079X, pg. 60:They say feed a cold, starve a fever, but they don't tell you what to do when you got both, so I figured scrambled eggs, tea, and toast.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fidibus canereto play on the lyre.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)to learn to play a stringed instrument.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
flavor explosionOne can experience a 'flavor explosion' upon imbibing a beverage you have hither-to not sampled. You anticipated myriad taste treats. Upon the first sip you wantonly begin your 'slake' in a cascade of foaming, bubbling, refreshing, exhilarating deluge of dashing delicacy, dancing from cheek to cheek, then explosively and divinely diving into the depths of your desert-dry throat channel!.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
flood the zoneTo fill a relevant region of the field of play.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
follow onThe act of a captain forcing the other side to bat again immediately after their first innings.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
follow suitTo play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fool aroundTo engage in adultery; to play around.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
fourth wallThe imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
from soup to nutsFrom the first course of a meal to the last.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
FTFYInitialism of first-time first-yearRate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
funny moneyPlay money.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
go to batBe the individual or team that is currently batting; play offense.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
golf widowA woman who is deprived of her husband's time and attention due to his regular absence in order to play golf.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
goof aroundTo play, or to fool around.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
ground ruleA rule regarding play on a specific field, course, or court.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
hammer outto play something on the pianoRate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
have onTo trick or deceive deliberately; to play a prank on.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
i got that #trumpumph.Song, and phrase by American Activist Greshun De Bouse, describing how there's just something so lively, animated, positive, and always excitingly persuasive about supporters of Donald J. Trump | term and hashtag #trumpumph" created/coined by American Activist Greshun De Bouse; first known use of term/hashtag on internetRate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
I'm rubber, you're glueThe first line of a children's rhyme countering an attack of character.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
il a été reçu d'embléeHe passed his examination the first time he went up, without any difficulty.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)
il a l'abord rude, mais il s'adoucit bientôtHe receives you roughly at first, but that soon passes off.Rate it:

(0.00 / 0 votes)

We need you!

Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

Alternative searches for play first fiddle:

Quiz

Are you a phrases master?

»
In for a penny, in for a _______.
A beer
B game
C pound
D cent

Browse Phrases.com

#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ