To employ shifts or evasions; to practise or use indirect methods; to practise or live by fraud, or temporary expedients.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)] > as way of life (5) shift1580 To employ shifts or evasions; to practise or use indirect methods; to practise or live by fraud, or temporary expedients. shark1608 intransitive. To depend on or practise fraud or the arts of a ‘shark’, parasite, or sharper; to live by shifts and stratagems. Often to shark for… shirk1633 intransitive. To practise fraud or trickery, esp. instead of working as a means of living; to prey or sponge upon others; rarely to pilfer (from… to live upon the shark1694 The action or an act of ‘sharking’. to live upon the shark: to live by sharking. spiv1947 (a) intransitive to make one's living as a spiv; (b) transitive to spiff, to spruce (oneself) up. |
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