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Значения термина thimblerig на английском

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

        Синонимы
        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
        Использование термина thimblerig на английском
        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 через время