Fiddle

Definition

fiddle / 'fÇdl / n ၁။ ( infml ) တေယာ။ ၂။ ( Brit sl ) အႀကံအဖန္။ ကလိမ္က်မႈ။ tax fiddles ❍ The stewardess lost her job because of an alleged drinks fiddle. v ၁။ ~ ( about / around ) with sth (က) ကလိသည္။ ဟိုေရႊ႕သည္ေရႊ႕လုပ္သည္။ ကစားသည္။ She fiddled with the things on her desk to avoid having to look at him. (ခ) ကလိသည္။ He was fiddling with the remote control. ၂။ အႀကံအဖန္ လုပ္သည္။ They won the contract by fiddling the figures. ❍ He was accused of fiddling his expenses. ၃။ ~ about / around ယီးတီးေယာင္ေတာင္ လုပ္သည္။ အၿမီးေျမႇာက္လိုက္ အီးေပါက္လိုက္လုပ္ သည္။ Stop fiddling about and do some work. ❏ be on the fiddle [ IDM ] ( sl ) ဟိုလိုလို သည္လိုလို လုပ္သည္။ ❏ fiddler / 'fÇdlǝ(r) / n တေယာထိုးသူ။ ❏ fiddling / 'fÇdlÇŋ / adj ( infml ) အေသးအဖြဲ။ fiddling little details. ❏ play second fiddle (to sb/sth) [ IDM ] ေနာက္လိုက္ ေနရာက ေနသည္။ I have no intention of playing second fiddle to the new director, so I've resigned.

Examples

1. [fiddle with] : She fiddled with the sugar packet
2. avoiding his eyes.
3. Kay was fiddling with the radio dial.
4. They all fiddle their taxes.
5. [fiddle the figures/books/accounts] : They accuse the government of fiddling the unemployment figures.