Significats de baksheesh en anglès

To step off the coach was to run the baksheesh gauntlet.

As long as they got their baksheesh, they simply didn't care what happened there.

From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.]

It was general practice to pay baksheesh for objects found, in addition to the daily wage.

The crowd smiled now and began scrambling for the baksheesh, and so they got through in peace.

Upon the payment of additional baksheesh they agreed to carry the coffin up the hill to our house.

Besides, in every country there are passport officers who are amenable to a little baksheesh! And he grinned.

You have earned much baksheesh.

We never get no baksheesh.

The consensus of the baksheesh and the political assassination is replaced, ever so gradually, by the dissension of the market place.

In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.

Accordingly he obeyed any summons from me with great alacrity, knowing that the interview would terminate with a "baksheesh" (present).

By dint of baksheesh they persuaded the photographer to develop their films there and then, and that same evening they had six prints.

The workmen finished nailing the coffin together and were persuaded, by the offer of extra baksheesh, to put the dead man into it.

The word was "baksheesh." It was regarded, not as payment for services actual or potential, but as a present from one equal to another.

An acknowledged £60,000 in political baksheesh during 1989 has made the opposition parties wonder how much more the Minister might have received.