Übersetzung für "To play second fiddle" in Deutsch

London was always going to play second fiddle.

I'm also a little young to play second fiddle to an airplane.

Broccoli was not in a position to play second fiddle to his former boss.

The logistics industry often complains that it has to play second fiddle to passenger transport services. Is an ITS the answer?

Lisbon and its satellites insist on supporting the Union's business-centred philosophy, while social policies continue to play second fiddle.

Similarly, in the 1956 Suez crisis, the USA prevented Britain and France from reasserting their national interests in Egypt, leaving these old imperial powers to play second fiddle to America in the Middle East.

As it is, time has pushed its way first, and the sky has had to play second fiddle.

There was "tension on the set," she says, because the cast "had to play second fiddle to a puppet.

The achievements of Alex Fong ("One Nite in Mongkok"), who has to play the second fiddle in many films although he is also a good actor in a more subtle way, are also great.

Kim Sang-ho, who embodies the polite reporter Jin-gi, is normally only allowed to play the second fiddle because of his not that ideal looks, but this time he gets a pretty likeable role and he makes the best of it.

To the leading group of the party (in the wide. circles he was not known at all) he always seemed a man destined to play second and third fiddle.

Would Commissioner Matutes not be better engaged in cooperating with this Parliament and its Members by attending an occasional meeting of the Transport Com mittee rather than compelling Members to play second fiddle to Europe's media and various other interests'?

Whatever business model it may adopt, that the BRICS bank is being set up reflects not only the desire for political independence felt by large emerging economies that no longer want to play second fiddle to the World Bank or the regional development banks, but also the fact that, since the international financial crisis, there has not been enough "patient capital" to meet the considerable demand from the developing countries and emerging economies for investment.

He was chosen for his unquestioning loyalty, and it is difficult to envisage Putin playing second fiddle to a man who has been his underling for 18 years.

The continent was now relegated to playing second fiddle on the international stage owing to the increased might of the United States and the Soviet Union and the growing rivalry between those two countries. In this context, a divided Western Europe quickly realised that the path to its survival lay in pooling its economic resources and establishing effective, common institutions, where necessary with US financial, technical and military support.

Age-old trade links had been cut off, and any heavy industry or vital manufacturing sector that had not been destroyed was operating below capacity in a Europe that lay bloodied and ill-prepared to deal with the millions of people made homeless both during and after the war. The continent was now relegated to playing second fiddle on the international stage owing to the increased might of the United States and the Soviet Union and the growing rivalry between those two countries. In this context, a divided Western Europe quickly realised that the path to its survival lay in pooling its economic resources and establishing effective, common institutions, where necessary with US financial, technical and military support.