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['fidl] 1. noun1) (a violin: She played the fiddle.) gosli2) (a dishonest business arrangement: He's working a fiddle over his taxes.) goljufija2. verb1) (to play a violin: He fiddled while they danced.) gosti (na gosli)2) ((with with) to make restless, aimless movements: Stop fiddling with your pencil!) igračkati se3) (to manage (money, accounts etc) dishonestly: She has been fiddling the accounts for years.) poneverjati•- fiddler- fiddler crab
- on the fiddle* * *I [fídl]noungosli, violina, godalo; nesmisel, norostto hang up one's fiddle — obesiti na klin; opustitito play first fiddle — nositi zvonec, imeti glavno vlogothere's many a good tune played on an old fiddle — izkušen človck v mnogem prekaša mladino, stara modrost prekaša norostto hang up one's fiddle when one comes home — biti v družbi zabaven, doma pa dolgočasenII [fídl]transitive verb & intransitive verbigrati na gosli, goslati, gosti, praskati (na violini); colloquially lenariti, čas zapravljati, norčije uganjati; ( with) ukvarjati se; slang varati, goljufatiIII [fídl]interjectionneumnosti!, nesmisel!
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