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['fidl] 1. noun1) (a violin: She played the fiddle.) violino2) (a dishonest business arrangement: He's working a fiddle over his taxes.) aldrabice2. verb1) (to play a violin: He fiddled while they danced.) tocar violino2) ((with with) to make restless, aimless movements: Stop fiddling with your pencil!) brincar3) (to manage (money, accounts etc) dishonestly: She has been fiddling the accounts for years.) aldrabar•- fiddler- fiddler crab
- on the fiddle* * *fid.dle[f'idəl] n violino, rabeca. • vt+vi 1 tocar rabeca, tocar violino. to play (on) the fiddle / tocar violino. 2 mexer ou tocar nervosamente um objeto. 3 ajustar uma máquina ou outro objeto para que funcione. 4 remexer, bulir. 5 intrometer-se. 6 burlar, trapacear, fraudar. to be on the fiddle / ganhar dinheiro desonestamente. fit as a fiddle em boa forma, bem-disposto. he is fiddleing while Rome burns ele não está tratando o problema com a seriedade devida, ele está fazendo primeiro coisas sem importância, ele está fingindo que não há nada errado. to fiddle about ou around 1 vadiar, perder tempo fazendo coisas sem importância. 2 movimentar coisas várias vezes para arranjar uma posição satisfatória. 3 mexer ou tocar algo com os dedos com pequenos movimentos nervosos. to fiddle away perder tempo, vadiar. to play second fiddle ocupar uma posição menos importante, ser subordinado a. -
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['tiŋkə] 1. noun(a person who travels around like a gypsy, mending kettles, pans etc.) funileiro2. verb(often with about or around) to fiddle, or work in an unskilled way, with machinery etc: He enjoys tinkering around (with car engines). mexer* * *tink.er[t'iŋkə] n 1 funileiro ambulante, latoeiro. 2 fig sarrafaçal, remendão. 3 remendagem, ato de sarrafar. 4 coll velhaco, biltre, tratante. • vt+vi 1 remendar, consertar, soldar. 2 sarrafaçar, sarrafar, atabalhoar, improvisar. • adj atabalhoado. to tinker up remendar pedaços. not to give a tinker’s curse sl não dar a mínima. -
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4 he is fiddleing while Rome burns
he is fiddleing while Rome burnsele não está tratando o problema com a seriedade devida, ele está fazendo primeiro coisas sem importância, ele está fingindo que não há nada errado. to fiddle about /around 1 vadiar, perder tempo fazendo coisas sem importância. 2 movimentar coisas várias vezes para arranjar uma posição satisfatória. 3 mexer ou tocar algo com os dedos com pequenos movimentos nervosos.English-Portuguese dictionary > he is fiddleing while Rome burns
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fiddle around — phrasal verb fiddle around or fiddle about [intransitive] Word forms fiddle around : present tense I/you/we/they fiddle around he/she/it fiddles around present participle fiddling around past tense fiddled around past participle fiddled around 1) … English dictionary
fiddle around — (in BRIT, also use fiddle about) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you fiddle around or fiddle about with a machine, you do things to it to try and make it work. [V P with n] Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine. [Also V P] Syn: tinker 2)… … English dictionary
fiddle around — See: FOOL AROUND(3) … Dictionary of American idioms
fiddle around — See: FOOL AROUND(3) … Dictionary of American idioms
fiddle\ around — See: fool around(3) … Словарь американских идиом
fiddle around — tinker, do something in an unplanned way I tried fiddling around with the computer printer for awhile but it still won t work … Idioms and examples
fiddle around — … Useful english dictionary
fiddle around with something — … Useful english dictionary
fiddle — [fid′ l] n. [ME fithele < OE < VL * vitula < L vitulari, to rejoice: vi (< IE * woi , wi , outcry > OE wi, Gr ia) + ? base of tollere, to raise, exalt] 1. Informal any stringed instrument played with a bow, esp. the violin ☆ 2.… … English World dictionary
fiddle — fid|dle1 [ˈfıdl] n informal [Date: 1200 1300; : Medieval Latin; Origin: vitula instrument played at ceremonies ] 1.) a ↑violin 2.) BrE a dishonest way of getting money ▪ an insurance fiddle on the fiddle … Dictionary of contemporary English
fiddle — 1 noun (C) informal 1 BrE a dishonest way of getting money: a tax fiddle | be on the fiddle (=be getting money dishonestly or illegally): They suspected he was on the fiddle all along. 2 a violin 3 be a fiddle to be difficult to do and involve… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
