КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «TICKTACK MAN»
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Rivers of Damascus and Other Stories
Sometimes the Big Ring would ticktack across bets to the Silver Ring, for though
pounds and fifties and hundreds are bet in Tattersall's, yet the Silver Ring took in
immense quantities in half-crowns and half-sovereigns. A ticktack man was paid
...
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The Farmers' Club Journal
His wife was very friendly with a ticktack man and they were on their way to the
bookmaker's funeral when she said to the ticktack man, "What price he goes to
Heaven?" "Well", said the ticktack man, "he was always very fair. He always
settled ...
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Death in Dublin: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution
Collins' friend Cullen called him the "ticktack man", and the name stuck. He had
an extraordinarily attractive face, with piercing blue eyes ; the ascetic face of the
monk. He was a type which Terence MacSwiney later made familiar, and in this ...
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Nigel Benn - The Dark Destroyer: I've Had Some Good Rucks in ...
Because ofthat, Brian hadtofunction as my corner manin the crowd and he
devised special signals which he would relay tomelike a ticktack man on a
racecourse. After Iturned professional, however, he tookout atrainer's licence and
hired his ...
... losing that casual, cautious, melancholy air of his, responded with a wall-faced
flicker of the horny eyelid, a ticktack man's signal, a real expressionless horsy
look of complete understanding. One day Brother Michael came across to him
and ...
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“Le” Robert & Collins super senior: grand dictionnaire ...
... sb's pride chatouilleux ; (= difficult) situation, problem, task épineux, délicat
ticktack l'uktœk] Q] n (Racing) langage m gestuel (des bookmakers) [2] coup ;
ticktack man n, pi ticktack men (Brit) aide m de bookmaker UcktOCk [tik'tDk] n [of
dock] ...
Alain Duval, Kathleen Micham, 2000
