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second fiddle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun second fiddle has 2 senses
- second fiddle(n = noun.person) second banana - someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role; Array is a kind of foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary, underling
- second fiddle(n = noun.act) Array - a secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone" is a kind of function, office, part, role
THESAURUS
second fiddle
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
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