dirty pool
Example Sentences
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He then plays some dirty pool by showing a headline from The New York Times about the buyer of the painting, cropping out the byline of the correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021
“Then she played dirty pool, and said, ‘If you go, the students might not enjoy it because they would be worrying about you,’” Barb recalled.
From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016
"That's dirty pool," said Robert Rehm, a Verizon Communications shareholder who also recently retired as a director of the Association of BellTel Retirees, which represents former Verizon workers.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2013
From now on it is dirty pool and judo in the clinches.
From Time • Jun. 27, 2013
No discoverer of a noble river ever felt prouder than Roger as, after he had hoisted out the bucket and tools, he stood at the well's edge gazing far down at the dirty pool.
From The Forbidden Trail by Morrow, Honoré
