Word.ws English Dictionary

on the fiddle

on the fiddle prepositional phrase: engaged in financially dishonest behaviour.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (slang) Engaged in financially dishonest behaviour.
    • He can't possibly afford that house on his salary. He must be on the fiddle.

Questions about on the fiddle

What does on the fiddle mean?
On the fiddle means engaged in financially dishonest behaviour.
What part of speech is on the fiddle?
On the fiddle is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the fiddle in the dictionary

  1. on the edge of one's seat
  2. on the face of
  3. on the face of it
  4. on the face of the earth
  5. on the fence
  6. on the fiddle
  7. on the flat
  8. on the flip side
  9. on the flipside
  10. on the floor
  11. on the fly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: on the fiddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “on the fiddle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/on_the_fiddle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.