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Перевод: ploy
[существительное] уловка ; хитрость ; занятие; излюбленное развлечение; затея
Тезаурус:
- In America this ploy is known as the California syndrome, after the hypocrites who invented out-of-state nuclear power.
- The religious element was a ploy, as was everything else.
- Henry's ploy was simply to lie.
- The most paranoid account held it was all a cunning ploy on Quiksilver's part, a mirage of advertising and hype.
- But in the market at that time the ploy was far from enough to make the new models seem like bargains.
- After a public haranguing from Atkinson at Highfield Road, the manager adopted a ploy which would have had Ferguson spluttering into his orange juice.
- What we have here is another American phenomenon: the marketing ploy.
- As a marketing ploy, apparently nothing moves Britain's top weekly colour mag off the shelves faster than a besotted star mum cradling a baby.
- And the larger a parrot's bill, the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image (a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor).
- Not having the courage for this ploy, I just went without.
- A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one's gym shoe just as one's turn came round, but it only staved off the evil moment.
- That was John Major's ploy on Tuesday.
- He admitted his hit factory had stagemanaged much of her career, using the age-old ploy of staying ahead of the game.
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