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Meanings of catch with chaff in English

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Usage of catch with chaff in English
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You are a cunning fledgling, not to be caught with chaff.
Infelice
2
Here's to the old bird that is not to be caught with chaff.
Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
3
No, no, that won't do,-oldbirds are not to be caught with chaff.
The Privateersman
4
I'm too old a bird to be caught with chaff.
Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border
5
But I'm too old a bird to be caught with chaff for all that.
Mistress and Maid: A Household Story
6
The old bird will not be caught with chaff.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 / A Mag...
7
Here's to the health of -- :Theold bird that was not caught with chaff.
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the...
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Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
My Book of Indoor Games
9
Oh, no, Mr. Farmer, I am too old a goat to be caught with chaff.
Billy Whiskers: The Autobiography of a Goat
10
I'm not going to be caught with chaff.
Grandmother Elsie
11
Many of them, as the preceding pages show, have too much sense to be caught with chaff.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
12
I'm no' to be catched with chaff.'
Margaret Ogilvy
13
All but the scoutmaster entered in this promiscuous way, and Thad was too wise a bird to be caught with chaff.
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island; or, Marooned Among the Game-f...
14
This fact, which he constantly insisted on, did give them weight; it made him look like a cunning fellow not to be caught with chaff.
The Imperialist
15
"Old birds aint caught with chaff!"
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
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"An old bird is not to be caught with chaff," chuckled the cobbler to himself; and he pulled the bed-clothes over his head.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales