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Economist 115 19: The piece goods concerned are cotton goods (not blanketing or Kaffir sheeting) .at kaffir sheeting (n.) under kaffir, adj.
Economist 115 19: The piece goods concerned are cotton goods (not blanketing or Kaffir sheeting) . Economist 17 Oct. 178/2: The pro-Eisenhower Chicago Daily News called his appointees ‘Governor Stratton’s team of Republican retreads’.at retread, n.
Economist 11 Apr. 134/2: Specially elected members (reference to whom the wilder parts of the audience had greeted with familiar African cries of ‘stooges’, ‘sell-outs’) .at sell-out, n.
Economist 17 Oct. 261/3: For Harold Wilson it was a carefully planned campaign: ... the neo-Kennedyism combined with a concentration on gut issues .at gut, adj.
Economist 16 May 699/2: Dum-dum bullets or smithereening explosives .at smithereen, v.
Economist 216:2 807: Callaghan’s Cliffhanger [...] It is a maddening cliffhanger in which the foreign exchange markets and the British authorities are now holding their breath for the next two major instalments.at cliffhanger, n.
Economist 14 June 22/2: Trading off bolshiness on these outstanding issues [...] against good behaviour on others will be hard.at bolshiness, n.
Economist 277 77/2: When the scandal first broke the conglomerate [...] tried to brass it out.at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
Economist 302 55/2: British banks are minting it (after a bad tax knock in 1984), though profits are not back to the levels of several years ago.at mint, v.
Economist 2 Jan. 🌐 [headline] More hat Than Cattle.at more hat than cattle (adj.) under hat, n.
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