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Meanings of thimblerig in English

A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under.

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Examples for "shell game"
Examples for "shell game"
1
Farming's a lonesome life; and they've been against the shell game before.
The Gentle Grafter
2
Have you ever seen a shell game played on the street?
Ebony
3
Psionics hadn't done away with anything including the old shell game.
The Big Fix
4
For once, it seemed Clara Strike wasn't playing a shell game on him.
Storm Front
5
It is nothing more than a shell game, O'Dea said.
Reuters
Usage of thimblerig in English
1
Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
2
I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.
The Plum Tree
3
That dame can't thimblerig me!
The Ivory Trail
4
The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname "Thimblerig."
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
5
He is to be seen escorting celebrated horsewoman, Fanny Highflyer, or in confidential converse with Lord Thimblerig, the eminent handicapper.
The Book of Snobs
6
'You're a ringer for a circus thimblerig man.'
The Gentle Grafter
Thimblerig through the time