MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «TICKTACK MEN»
ticktack men
ticktack
collins
always
word
forms
plural
ˈtɪkˌtæk
mɛn
racing
british
bookmaker
uses
system
sign
language
mainly
using
hands
transmit
secret
ticktacks
mime
odds
before
race
semaphore
price
changes
from
bookies
rail
track
center
grand
national
pathé
david
arnold
pinkie
perks
football
poster
sussex
express
days
they
engaged
loan
sharking
people
with
gambling
debts
looked
after
illegal
providing
clerks
also
inside
opaque
world
tick
tack
sunday
times
year
horse
called
brave
inca
defied
betting
signalled
bookmakers
romp
home
festival
hurdle
chop
their
arms
media
guardian
because
technological
10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «TICKTACK MEN»
Découvrez l'usage de
ticktack men dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
ticktack men et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
1
Rivers of Damascus and Other Stories
He would give his bet to the head of the ticktack men, and that would be coded
across to a runner in the Big Ring. Sometimes the Big Ring would ticktack across
bets to the Silver Ring, for though pounds and fifties and hundreds are bet in ...
Boolcies (legal at British tracks) and their ticktack men are a colorful lot, even in
black and white. As they try to attract bettors, gesturing in their own sign language
and shouting an arcane gambler's lingo, their wizened faces and shrewd ...
3
More Than Words: An Introduction to Communication
But thereare moresubtlesigns, such as thesteepling offingers toexpress
confidence.And forsome people, gestures arepartoftheir job –the ticktack men
ataracecourse, signalingbetsandresults. There are some complete languages of
gesture ...
Graeme Burton, Richard Dimbleby, 2002
4
Interpersonal Skills: Goal Directed Behaviour at Work
Thereare, however, manyemblems thatarespecific toonegroup of communicators(
for example, ticktack men on aracecourse)orthe membersof one culture.
Outsiders may notbeableto translate the meaning of such emblems or may
interpret ...
A troop of Ukrainian pilgrims shuffled their way downstairs and then crawled
between the bishop's skirts to get under the altar and kiss the star. They came up
crossing like ticktack men. A scowling cowled monk hissed at me. I looked blank.
When we returned to the wharf two ticktack men approached us. They wanted us
to go back with them and 'have a nice Irish girl'. We told them that the boat would
soon be sailing; anyway it was too early in the day. They insisted. They had a ...
7
Shalom bomb: scenes from my life
I told him about all my uncles, always on the make: bookmakers, ticktack men,
gamblers, greengrocers, con-men. I told him about my uncle Joe who had a
dance band in Amsterdam before the war. "Did you ever hear of Joe Kops and
the ...
8
The Irish way: a walk through Ireland's past and present
Up in the stands their confederates, the white-gloved ticktack men, wigwag
signals as they perceive the odds changing from their perspective among the
horseplayers. A racegoer has the choice of betting with a bookie — whose
exchequer ...
Robert Emmett Ginna, 2003
I thought the dog track was pretty exciting in those days, what with the ticktack
men in their white gloves and their own cryptic semaphore, the seedy-looking
weasel-faced men and dumpy women in make-up that had been chucked on in ...
10
England '91 on $50 a Day
There is also a replica of a weighing-in room, plus explanations of the signs used
by the ticktack men who keep the on-course bookies informed of changes in the
price of bets. A continuous 53-minute audio- visualpresentation shows races ...
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, 1990
