play (someone) like a fiddle
play (someone) like a fiddle
To easily and deftly manipulate someone to suit one's own needs, ends, or benefits. That travelling salesman played me like a fiddle. Now what am I going to do with all this junk that he convinced me to buy? Can't you see that his flattery is totally insincere? He's playing you like a fiddle!
See also: fiddle, like, play
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be played like a fiddle
- get played like a fiddle
- play (something) off as (something else)
- hang up (one's) fiddle
- hang up your fiddle
- (as) fit as a fiddle
- be as fit as a fiddle
- fit as a fiddle
- belly fiddle
- mop up the floor with (one)