Sentence examples for like a fiddle from inspiring English sources

Having played everyone like a fiddle (Stradivarius, most likely) and left them sloshing about in their own blood in series two's dramatic finale, series three finds Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) swanning about Italy posing as an academic, hardly killing then eating anyone at all.

Mitt Romney accuses former U.S. leaders of having "been played like a fiddle by the Chinese".

You don't have the ability to play the economy like a fiddle.

He was an easy mark, and Hitchcock played him like a fiddle.

"He is just playing the police like a fiddle," Professor Fox said.

She chimed like a xylophone, darted like a fiddle, slithered like a flute.

Boyd Tinsley's violin can sound like a Celtic fiddle or a lead guitar; Leroi Moore, on saxophones and flute, could honk deep soul-band riffs or waft jazz lines.

Speaking about the edits Rone says: "My tracks develop as I play them live, I like to fiddle with them a little, let them take on a new persona".

James Duke's wedding day began with a shock like a snapped fiddle string.

As for the performances, Simmons is a sinewy symphony of physicality, his muscular arms and poised fingers waving the drama onward apace, his endlessly expressive eyes alert and ablaze, his razor-sharp mouth playing the paper-cut dialogue like a demonic fiddle.

She plays the internet like a fucking fiddle, and you idiots eat it up".