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second banana
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  1. (context, idiom) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.
He grew disenchanted with playing and never getting credit for the laughter.
  1. (idiom) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.
The plumber left his behind, to finish installing my new sink.
     
 
  

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