'second fiddle' definitions:
Definition of 'second fiddle'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role [syn: second fiddle, second banana]
noun
A secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone"
Synonyms of 'second fiddle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- back seat,
- cog,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- creature,
- flunky,
- follower,
- hoi polloi,
- humbleness,
- humility,
- inferior,
- inferiority,
- junior,
- juniority,
- lightweight,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- lowliness,
- masses,
- minority,
- pawn,
- second string,
- secondariness,
- secondary,
- servility,
- subaltern,
- subjection,
- subordinacy,
- subordinate,
- subordination,
- subservience,
- third string,
- third stringer,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- yes-man