What is A Fiddle?
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it's a fiddle, Brit slang for fraud, a con.
bum hocks a fiddle. a week later rich dude offers pawnbroker $2k for it. Pawnbroker asks dude to return after bum comes to redeem the fiddle. Bum returns, pawnbroker offers $500, bum gets him up to $1k & splits. Dude never returns, pawnbroker has worthless fiddle, bum & dude party. Old English con job.
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