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单词 palm-tickling
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palm-tickling
palm-tickling n.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [adjective] > of nature of bribe > bribing
bribing1570
suborning1588
petit-bribing1634
palm-tickling1809
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. viii. vii. 292 Palm-tickling petitioners for the loaves and fishes.
1881 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 13 127 The smuggling is so profitable to the merchants and so palm-tickling to the officials.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 12 Sept. d15 The TISH poets' elitist, palm-tickling penchant for writing poems to and about each other.
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