| 单词 | thimblerig |
| 释义 | thimblerig (once / 337695 pages) n WORD FAMILY thimblerig USAGE EXAMPLESHow terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot! Lever, Charles James, The Fortunes Of Glencore(2010) A Tory told me it was a second edition of the thimblerig speech, which, if so, will not do him good. Greville, Charles, The Greville Memoirs—A Journal of t...(2010) The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname “Thimblerig.” Sylvester, Charles Herbert, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8(2010) n a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under Syn|Hyper shell game cheat, rig, swindle the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
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