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单词 to run the buck
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to run the (also a) buck
k. to run the (also a) buck: to cheat, to indulge in fraudulent or deceptive practices. Now rare (chiefly Irish English in later use).
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1728 Post-man 4–7 May 264/2 Run the Buck, false Measure in Coals, cheating the Owners, and converting the same to their own Use.
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 70 Tallow-Chandlers who do Business privately in Back Cellars..to evade the King's Duty..make Mould Candles, known by the Name of Running the Buck.
1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley x. 48 The various modes of ‘running a buck’ (anglicè, substituting a vote).
1879 Catholic World Dec. 419/2 The curnel saw they were thryin' for to run a buck on him, an' he claimed the stakes.
1900 Iron Molders' Jrnl. Apr. 242/2 Harry Haines..was fined to the amount of $50 for the offence of running a buck at the Griffen Wheel Works.
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