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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (idiomatic) A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.
- (set phrase) One who deftly evades obstacles, pursuers, inconveniences, or other difficulties.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: artful, dodger
Samankaltaisia sanoja
Esimerkit
- Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
- Timothy Mack has spent 13 years spiriting wallets from the pockets and purses of Los Angelenos, an artful dodger's career that has been interrupted by 20 arrests and two jail terms.
- Perfect little con man and artful dodger, always on the make for some angle or another.
- I was a pussyfoot, an artful dodger, sidestepping abandoned children, waifs and strays, foundlings, castaways, and junk-people.
- I could see the traps and landmines ahead and avoid them, a real artful dodger.
- For the second time in two weeks, Oliver, a 9-year-old capuchin monkey at a Mississippi zoo, escaped his cage, and this time, his keepers said he proved to be an even more artful dodger.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | artful dodgers |
Luokat
(idiomatic) A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.
The Artful Dodger by "Kyd" c. 1890
(idiomatic) A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.
James Mahony's 1871 engraving of the Artful Dodger (left) introducing himself to Oliver as "Jack Dawkins," known as "the artful Dodger". Dodger uses Cockney slang which is juxtaposed with Oliver's 'proper' English.
(idiomatic) A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.
George Cruikshank's original engraving in 1838 of the Artful Dodger (centre), introducing Oliver (right) to Fagin (left). It can be argued that Cruikshank originated the Dodger's trademark top hat -- Dickens never specifically describes the hat.