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Any notions of generational traumas being unavoidable, or the sins of the father being hidden from sons in the name of protectiveness, plays second fiddle to, say, what Perkins can do to a bus full of cheerleaders at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, precursor voters decided Culkin’s backing band should be a bunch of second fiddles.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Perhaps the thinnest of all SNL skit-to-movie translations — and that really is saying a lot — Ferrell bobs his head a lot and mostly plays second fiddle to Chris Kattan, something that would never, ever happen again.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Even Big Tech earnings and the jobs numbers coming out this week, typically market-moving reports, are likely to play second fiddle to policy developments.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Instead, precursor voters decided Culkin’s backing band should be a bunch of second fiddles.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
Perhaps the thinnest of all SNL skit-to-movie translations — and that really is saying a lot — Ferrell bobs his head a lot and mostly plays second fiddle to Chris Kattan, something that would never, ever happen again.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
Even Big Tech earnings and the jobs numbers coming out this week, typically market-moving reports, are likely to play second fiddle to policy developments.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Second fiddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/second%20fiddle. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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