- 看过 thimblerig 的人也看了 :
- con game
- thimblerigging
- shell game
thimblerig 的 2 个定义
- a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
thim·ble·rigged, thim·ble·rig·ging.
- to cheat by or as by the thimblerig.
thimblerig 近义词
等同于 shell game
thimblerig 的近义词 3 个
等同于 three-card monte
thimblerig 的近义词 1 个
更多thimblerig例句
- The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname “Thimblerig.”
- A Tory told me it was a second edition of the thimblerig speech, which, if so, will not do him good.
- How terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot!