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Meanings of backsheesh in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tip"
Examples for "tip"
1
Under that plan, the Victorian state government would also tip in money.
2
Interventions: A 200-W, cooled-tip RF probe system was used for all cases.
3
Federal agents started investigating the business after an anonymous tip last year.
4
The refugee figures for Europe are just the tip of the iceberg.
5
Wait about 15 minutes, during which time the shadow tip will move.
1
Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
2
You may tip in cash or add a gratuity to your card.
3
After paying a small gratuity, they went on to the next shrine.
4
With these instructions, and a very small gratuity, the Captain left me.
5
Romney was obliged to be content with a gratuity of twenty-five guineas.
1
To step off the coach was to run the baksheesh gauntlet.
2
As long as they got their baksheesh, they simply didn't care what happened there.
3
From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.]
4
It was general practice to pay baksheesh for objects found, in addition to the daily wage.
5
The crowd smiled now and began scrambling for the baksheesh, and so they got through in peace.
1
Nilratan spoke to the peons: "There has been no occasion for bakshish; you shan't have it."
2
The peons, grinning as before, answered: "The Babu-Sahib went to see the Magistrate-sowe have come for bakshish."
3
They rowed hard when the course was clear, encouraged by promises of liberal bakshish made by their employer at Desmond's prompting.
4
The soldiers behaved most helpfully and the brave and bold Jabberi had not yet once mentioned bakshish in our hearing and were most polite.
5
The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable "bakshish," the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.
1
We offer you five francs, and this includes a franc pourboire.
2
He examined the piece and demanded a pourboire.
3
No doubt it is a pourboire he wants.
4
For fifteen francs, plus always the pourboire, I will take you to Barcy, which was bombarded and burnt.
5
Then to Jefferson she added: "Give him a franc for a pourboire-thatmakes five francs altogether."
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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