8 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NICK SOMEONE FOR»
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nick someone for in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... nick someone for cheat someone out of something, typically a sum of money.
North American informal 1962 Washington Daily News Taxpayers . . . have heard
rumblings that they might be nicked for about a million dollars each year to ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
1985 Nini HermanMy Kleinian Home Time and again, when all seemed lost, I
somehow won through in the nick of time. nick someone for cheat someone out of
something, typically a sum of money. North American informal 1962Washington ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
2(nick someone for) N. Amer. informal cheat someone of (a sum of money):
banks will be nicked for an extra $40 million. 3 Brit. informal arrest (someone):
Stuart and Dan got nicked for burglary. – phrases in —— nick Brit. informal in a
specified ...
“Well,thieving is thieving, andthe Sweeney tryingto nick someone for receiving is
all part and parcel of the game. Right?” I nodded. “But thieving isn't thieving when
it'stodo with politics, because then,myold son, it becomes something else ...
... he'd have to fool her again and again until at last the very fact that his
payments coincided exactly with her losses would be too much even for an idiot.
A way out would be to nick someone for a week's rent, then move and take
another boob.
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Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction
... nick someone for a week's rent, then move and take another boob. That tactic
had its drawbacks. If the news got around and a hunt started after the bilker, he
would have to change identities. He wasn't averse to soaking a mut- tonhead or ...
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Astounding Science-fiction
A way out would be to nick someone for a week's rent, then move and take
another boob. That tactic had its drawbacks. If the news got around and a hunt
started after the bilker, he would have to change identities. He wasn't averse to
soaking ...
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We thought they were going to nick someone for indecent material.There were
blokeseven interfering with pigsin them! Wolfie was the scout, ourspotter, the
manin theknow. Out earlyfor the game with nearly alwayssomething to report
backby ...