During the 16th. century, the advent of the word 'violin' for the instrument colloquially known as 'fiddle' drove the word 'fiddle' into common usage. First recorded use of the alliterative nonce word, as nonsense itself, 'fiddle faddle' was in 1577
It means to come in behind someone else, as if they were the first fiddle in the orchestra and you were the second one. The second fiddle in an orchestra supports the first one and plays harmony for them - someone who is playing second fiddle supports the other person and backs them up.
In Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not For Burning, Justice Tappercoom says "The whole thing's a lot of amphigourious, stultiloquential fiddle-faddle."
Fiddle.
As fit as a fiddle.
As fit as a fiddle
A little fiddle
little fiddle
The duration of On the Fiddle is 1.43 hours.
As a noun: The lead singer of the group played the fiddle as good as he sang. As a verb: I can fiddle if you can play the guitar. Or: If you fiddle with that remote control one more time, you'll go to your room.
fiddle and mandolin
The viola is sometimes called a fiddle although whoever does is inaccurate, because the violin may be considered a fiddle if played in what i like to call "playing in a fiddle fashion. Please note that you can still fiddle on the viola since it is a technique but the viola itself is not called a fiddle.