thimblerigging
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Her very serenity sometimes baffles colleagues who know the backstage thimblerigging that accompanies the rise to operatic fame.
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William Allen White compared Morgan tactics to "a thimblerigging game."
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The object of Stendhal's satire is the cheap-jack kingery of Louis Philippe�that "crowned calculating machine"�and the belowstairs thimblerigging of the corrupt, bureaucrazed regime through which he misgoverned France.
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Much of the work of the alphabetical agencies has been, to Beard, a species of "economic thimblerigging."
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Reginald thereupon remarks that sooner than allow 'is innocent patrons to be swindled by a six-fingered thimblerigging son of a confidence trickster 'e'd start in an' expose 'im.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 by Various
