second fiddle (SEK-und FID-l) noun

   Secondary role. A person in such a role.

   "Until last year the club had played second fiddle to their great rivals
   Leicester in recent times."
   Ian Malin, Rugby Union, The Guardian (UK), Mar 10, 2001.

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