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Значения термина baksheesh на английском

португальский
gorjeta
испанский
baksheesh

A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

gorjeta
Использование термина baksheesh на английском
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To step off the coach was to run the baksheesh gauntlet.
The Guardian
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As long as they got their baksheesh, they simply didn't care what happened there.
Torch of Freedom
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From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.]
The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
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It was general practice to pay baksheesh for objects found, in addition to the daily wage.
Land of marvels
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The crowd smiled now and began scrambling for the baksheesh, and so they got through in peace.
His Hour
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Upon the payment of additional baksheesh they agreed to carry the coffin up the hill to our house.
A river in the sky
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Besides, in every country there are passport officers who are amenable to a little baksheesh! And he grinned.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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You have earned much baksheesh.
A river in the sky
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We never get no baksheesh.
Broken Homes
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The consensus of the baksheesh and the political assassination is replaced, ever so gradually, by the dissension of the market place.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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In common with the rest of the world I had heard of baksheesh, but until then I never understood its magic power.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
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Accordingly he obeyed any summons from me with great alacrity, knowing that the interview would terminate with a "baksheesh" (present).
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of...
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By dint of baksheesh they persuaded the photographer to develop their films there and then, and that same evening they had six prints.
The Pit Prop Syndicate
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The workmen finished nailing the coffin together and were persuaded, by the offer of extra baksheesh, to put the dead man into it.
A river in the sky
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The word was "baksheesh." It was regarded, not as payment for services actual or potential, but as a present from one equal to another.
A river in the sky
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An acknowledged £60,000 in political baksheesh during 1989 has made the opposition parties wonder how much more the Minister might have received.
The Irish Times
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португальский
gorjeta
испанский
baksheesh
Baksheesh через время