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• Engaged in cheating or swindling.

  More example sentences

  • ‘Now in spite of the fact Duke'd been on the fiddle, neither his wife nor his dreaded mother-in-law knew about his shenanigans.’
  • ‘The cross section of hospitals that were tested was only a fraction in the country and we can safely assume that statistically most of those will be on the fiddle too.’
  • ‘Our main suspicion was a sales droid on the fiddle.’
  • ‘We will continue to remind ourselves that those listed in this report were not necessarily on the fiddle.’