0 to act dishonestly in order to get something for yourself, or to change something dishonestly, especially to your advantage:
1 to move things about or touch things with no particular purpose:
3 a violin :
to play the fiddle
4 something difficult to do, especially because the things involved are small or need careful use of the fingers:
5 something dishonest that someone does in order to get money or other advantages:
6 to move things around or touch things without a particular purpose:
7 a violin
8 to change figures dishonestly, often in order to get more money:
fiddle your overtime/expenses The report criticised officers who fiddled their overtime and tax inspectors who received tax-free bonuses.
10 to dishonestly change a company's accounts or financial records:
fiddled the books
13 to be seen as less important than another person or thing:
People would not want to jeopardise their livelihood by falsifying their reports or by fiddling with the coupons, or so the logic went.
They are given an amnesty at the end of every financial year to carry on their tax dodging and all the rest of the fiddles.
Such changes make it far more difficult for the fiddles and shenanigans that have been mentioned tonight to be detected.
I would be prepared to say now that an awful lot of expenses filed in the last five years have been "fiddled".
We must suspect that these figures have been "fiddled", as every other figure had been "fiddled".
Fiddling around in the meantime with repatriating hundreds of thousands is avoiding the main issue.
We shall not get anywhere merely by fiddling around with tax rates and allowances within the present system.
Even the cut of £1,000 million that he claims in 1983–84 is the result of fiddling the figures.
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