Examples of using Second fiddle in English and their translations into German
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I'm tired of playing second fiddle.
I have played second fiddle on this ship long enough.
LA is far from content with playing second fiddle to New York.
The hotel's superb restaurant dominates the property-- both physically and in terms of fame,with the hotel itself often playing second fiddle.
We won't play second fiddle in global politics.
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Serenissima Our night time Venice canal wallpaper mural has so much lovely tone andcolor that the gorgeous scenery almost plays second fiddle.
Broccoli was not in a position to play second fiddle to his former boss.
Indeed, China had shunned Japan's 1997 proposal to create an Asian MonetaryFund precisely because it worried that it would play second fiddle.
Besides while you were gabbing with Vince's second fiddle, I was ransacking his room.
Lisbon and its satellites insist on supporting the Union's business-centred philosophy,while social policies continue to play second fiddle.
You have got to understand that since we were boys, I have played second fiddle to that egomaniacal, self-regarding.
A pretty central pool plays second fiddle to the gorgeous beach, while the restaurant serves what some call the best seafood in the Riviera Maya.
In recent years, value investing has played second fiddle to growth investing.
Large parts of the Left do not want to distance themselves from this type of secularism. Actually they stand in line in this very phalanx,in which they inevitably can only play second fiddle.
Sustainability of the welfare system is playing second fiddle only despite the fact that already taxpayers are burdened with avoidable costs. more.
The objective of reducing the amount by which the least favouredregions lag behind must not play second fiddle to territorial cohesion;
Considered by some as second fiddle to its more popular siblings like White Diamonds, Passion Perfume by Elizabeth Taylor is still a highly successful celebrity fragrance in many aspects.
Ooze- Snail monster because of no food prepared to attack ooze homes,ooze are not resigned to playing second fiddle, rise against, civil war!
The following selection has the unfortunate task of playing second fiddle to a recipe that I know sent the vast majority of you running off to the store to buy pineapples, coconut and carrots.
But I have always fought against this feeling: I have always enjoyed finding something new in the score,even if it's only a line in the second fiddle whose importance I had noticed before.
The achievements of Alex Fong("One Nite in Mongkok"),who has to play the second fiddle in many films although he is also a good actor in a more subtle way, are also great.
Similarly, in the 1956 Suez crisis, the USA prevented Britain and France from reasserting their national interests in Egypt,leaving these old imperial powers to play second fiddle to America in the Middle East.
What is important to the grass-roots movement isnot if the ΕU is playing first or second fiddle, but that, together with the USA, it is carrying out an orchestrated attack on fundamental human rights and democratic freedoms.
To our European officials, the Council and the Vice-President/High Representative, I say this: it is disappointing to listen to President Obama, or Hillary Clinton, speaking boldly and ontime, with you, as always, playing second fiddle and barely audible.
Much has been achieved,though justice and freedom still play second fiddle to security, to the European Union's discredit.
Casein has actually consistently played second fiddle due to the quite sluggish food digestion rate, however this makes it ideal as a snack pre bedtime given that it avoids assimilation that while you rest by vacant it gradually and progressively.
He was chosen for his unquestioning loyalty,and it is difficult to envisage Putin playing second fiddle to a man who has been his underling for 18 years.
By rescheduling it for November(apparently Jiang Zemin had double-booked himself by promising to travel to Texas to stay with President Bush on his Crawford ranch), the 16th Party Congress, at which the next generation of China's leaders will be anointed,may play second fiddle to a diplomatic visit.
While accepting that Europe is not a federalist system, as far as Euroland statistics are concerned, it isvital that, in the provision of shortterm macro economic indicators that Eurostat cannot play second fiddle to national statistics, if we are ever to have"market credible" data for the new economic entity that the European Union has created.
Whatever business model it may adopt, that the BRICS bank is being set up reflects not only the desire for political independence felt by large emergingeconomies that no longer want to play second fiddle to the World Bank or the regional development banks, but also the fact that, since the international financial crisis, there has not been enough"patient capital" to meet the considerable demand from the developing countries and emerging economies for investment.