fiddle with

• Verbo usado para indicar o ato repetido de tocar, mexer ou ajustar algo, muitas vezes de forma nervosa ou sem objetivo, ou fazer pequenas alterações em algo para consertá-lo ou melhorá-lo.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of touching or adjusting something repeatedly, often in a nervous or aimless way, or making small changes to something in an attempt to fix or improve it.

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Adjust or tamperinformal

   To touch or adjust something repeatedly, often in a nervous or aimless way, or to make small changes.

   Mexer ou ajustar

   • Stop fiddling with your phone during the meeting.
   • He fiddled with the radio until he found a good station.
   • She fiddled with the settings on the camera.

   Sinônimosadjusttwiddle

2. Manipulate dishonestlyinformal

   To change something in a dishonest way to get a desired result.

   Fraudar

   • The accountant was caught fiddling with the company's books.
   • They fiddled with the test results to make them look better.
   • He was accused of fiddling with the evidence.

   Sinônimoscookdoctorfalsifyfixfudgemanipulaterig

Verbo basefiddle