Sentence examples for like a fiddler from inspiring English sources

IN the opening scene of "Fiddler on the Roof," Tevye, the show's narrator, explains that each Jew in the shtetl Anatevka is like "a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck".

For the neck to be a primarily sexual characteristic, it would need to be larger in males than in females, like a fiddler crab's fiddle claw — but it isn't.

Pop had it in for the Reverend Dr. Kovner, not because he was an apostate (Pop couldn't have cared less), not because the mission was a racket (he admitted that the Reverend Doctor was personally honest), but because Dr. Kovner behaved foolishly, spoke like a fool, and acted like a fiddler.

He also describes deliberately courting media attention, being "in and out of the TV studios in parliament house like a fiddler's elbow" because the publicity would "ensure that Rudd can't dump me (as foreign minister) if he takes over".

There I would be, in an orange jumpsuit, standing on a mop bucket, ass going like a fiddler's elbow.

As one mother put it: " 'My neighbour says you're in and out of that house like a fiddler's elbow".

He is low in stature — long visage — light hair — coarse features — ungaitly — awkward — is a fiddler — loves ale — likes the girls — somewhat idle, — hates work.

He is low in stature — long visage — light hair — coarse features — ungaitly — awkward — is a fiddler — loves ale — likes the _girls — somewhat idle, — hates work.

But what happens when improvisation stops looking difficult, when the improviser's virtuosity begins to feel less like the high-wire act of free jazz and more like a deft fiddler's merely showy arpeggios?

"There's an assumption that... because you've sat down there [in the interviewee's chair], you're going to be scrutinized like a kiddie fiddler who's running for mayor," the actor said.

He added: "There's an assumption that… because you've sat down there you're going to be scrutinized like a kiddie fiddler who's running for mayor… "I'm one of those guys who I'm always assuming the social decorum is in play, and that we're promoting a superhero movie, a lot of kids are going to see it, and that just has nothing to do with your creepy dark agenda".