second fiddle
33 synonyms found
- back seat
- cog
- commonality
- commonalty
- flunky
- hoi polloi
- humbleness
- humility
- inferior
- 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
Definition
"the second fiddle on that tune is almost as hard as the first fiddle."