play first fiddle
Example Sentences
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Bill Brookes wants to play first fiddle here; but he can’t and won’t.
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey
Of course he felt sore at his failures, when he was used to play first fiddle.
From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Frank Feller
Some there are who would wish me to urge the Admiral to play first fiddle in the coming attack.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton
He considered himself the cleverest, most eloquent and most cultured of them all; moreover in a little club like this, which he had organized, he expected to play first fiddle.
From Sanine by Percy Pinkerton
Very good, but I won’t ask to play first fiddle.
From The Battle and the Breeze by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
