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Significados de short-change en inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "con"
Examples for "con"
1
According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
2
According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
3
You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
4
Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
5
But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
1
And that word, like 'rook', has its origins in the word 'rock'.
2
Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
3
Obviously there must be a rook in every row and every column.
4
Up to yesterday I had never shot a rook in my life.
5
A rook was picked up and slammed down, taking Matthew's second knight.
1
This scam could be used for other products with similar credit offers.
2
The scam involves criminals debiting R99 from citizens' bank accounts without authorisation.
3
QUESTION: My landlord is trying to scam me into fixing his property.
4
It was an internet scam conducted the brick-and-mortar way, the FTC said.
5
Just 12 months ago, he was implicated in a tender fraud scam.
1
He'd gyp me for ten dollars, but he'd probably come for five.
2
I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
3
As I have said, he was a devil of a gyp.
4
The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
5
Gyp walked across the room and put her hand on the bell.
1
You have to work your way in or swindle your way in.
2
He was even duped into believing in the cheap swindle of table-tipping.
3
But a woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
4
Beside the Casino where roulette is played there is another swindle-therestaurants.
5
One man said there was a swindle somewhere - no fox terriers.
1
Typically, such charges are levied against individuals and companies that defraud investors.
2
The teacher would corrupt his pupil, and the guardian defraud his ward.
3
Your privilege ought not to be used to defraud the other creditors.
4
And I'm afraid there may be a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
5
He has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of conspiracy to defraud.
1
I must say, it has been giving me some gip.'
2
As for the 'gip' who was stabbed, nothing more was heard of it; she 'traipsed' off with the rest.
3
One fiendish creature drew her scissors, and, using them like a stiletto, drove the sharp point into a sister 'gip's' head.
4
GIP is an investment fund founded by Credit Suisse and General Electric.
5
I glanced at Gip, but Gip was looking at a magic rocking-horse.
1
So he began to try 'Hey diddle diddle', but it wouldn't do.
2
Tramp, tramp, tramp went the rhythmic feet; diddle-diddle-dee went the fiddles.
3
The origin of the diddle is referrable to the infancy of the Human Race.
4
Rather a small, but still a scientific diddle is this.
5
The origin of the diddle is referable to the infancy of the Human Race.
1
This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
2
I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side.
3
Because of your gestures I believe you are trying to bunco this court.
4
Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.
5
Let him bunco me into putting through that dam for him!
1
With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
2
We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble?
3
Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
4
Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
5
Attempts had been made to "nobble" a referee.
1
They would victimize you, they would blame you, they would accuse you.
2
And it is easier to victimize children than it is adults.
3
Shady advertising certainly can victimize people who do not understand how reverse mortgages work.
4
I don't want the society to victimize me when I refuse to be victimized.
5
I did not victimize your daughter and you know it.
1
The mulct to be imposed upon the parish of Epinal was never exacted.
2
The bondes came then, according to agreement, to pay the mulct.
3
My remark was an epitogram-anaxis-akind of mulct'em in parvo.
4
When he is warned on a jury, he had rather pay the mulct than appear.
5
No mulct was paid for Harek's house-servants, and the rock was declared to be Grankel's.
1
I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
2
I do not feel hard toward goldbrick men and "blue sky" venders.
3
Out with the goldbrick first.
4
We chiseled, stole, malingered, goldbricked, and generally made ourselves as comfortable as we could.
5
He sounded out of breath, but Hall had no idea why; he had been goldbricking all night.
1
And as for those rails Cardigan managed to hornswoggle me out of-
2
But don't forget, boys, when you-all want me to hornswoggle Wall Street another flutter, all you-all have to do is whisper the word.
3
Hornswoggled me out of seven letters.
4
"I'll be hornswoggled if I can stand this much longer," he gasped out to Frank.
Uso de short-change en inglés
1
Leto smiled, This is Apollo's work but don't short-change yourself.
2
The Tories will be accused of trying to short-change Scotland.
3
But will these Republicans opt to short-change their middle class political base the same way?
4
The problem is, these foods not only dent the budget, they can short-change you nutritionally.
5
In what way does this short-change the public?
6
I can still count, and I don't short-change.
7
Leaders who short-change their philosophical vision always end up losing even if, in the short term, they're elevated in the polls.
8
In most cases you'll be wrong and you will short-change your trip and miss an opportunity to experience something new and fun.
9
ACCC Commissioner Sarah Court said these warranty rights were "automatic" and Fitbit could not unilaterally modify them to short-change consumers.
10
This inquiry was due to investigate allegations that Watson had funnelled and estimated R500 million out of South Africa to short-change SARS.
11
A shortened review process could leave projects open to worries from environmentalists and others that an expedited permitting system could short-change environmental protections.
12
All the players want to play for a start, and I wouldn't like to short-change the fans because Old Trafford tickets aren't cheap.
13
Democratic lawmakers have also warned the Interior Department not to extend the lower royalty rates to deepwater acreage, saying the move would short-change taxpayers.
14
The traps snapped down upon the necks of minor-league peculators, till tappers, short-change artists, bill padders, invoice forgers, but never upon his greatest enemy's.
15
Sen. Jay Rockefeller went further, observing that such a huge budget allocation would short-change other priorities and actually be "dangerous to national security."
16
Not that Channel 4 will short-change racing fans -its Cheltenham coverage was exemplary -but the sense of national occasion will necessarily be lessened.