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Meanings of backsheesh in English
Usage of backsheesh in English
1
He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
2
Give backsheesh with kind face, and not send poor Arab to Assouan.
3
I contented myself with giving him backsheesh, while my companion photographed him.
4
Give good backsheesh, and not sit down halfway and say: 'No top'!
5
It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an unsatisfactory backsheesh.
6
Everywhere you go you hear the insistent, importunate cry for backsheesh.
7
Still clamoring and thrusting up hands for backsheesh they kept pace with him.
8
I should think it's me that deserves backsheesh if anybody does.
9
The inhabitants of Bscharai paid us a visit for the purpose of demanding backsheesh.
10
The boys came staring round, bawling after us with their fathers for the inevitable backsheesh.
11
He told me the population of the United States, and I gave him more backsheesh.
12
If he takes us there straight, he gets backsheesh.
13
I was so surprised to hear "Bible" instead of "backsheesh" that I investigated.
14
I think I know forty or fifty words already, besides my 'salaam aleikum' and 'backsheesh.'
15
But it's working all right-r-i-g-h-t. It's worth the backsheesh!
16
He spelled America, and I gave him backsheesh.
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United Kingdom
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