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Перевод: wangle
[существительное] хитрость ; уловка ; нечестная сделка; [глагол] добиться; выпросить; ухитриться получить; хитростью вынудить; хитростью побудить; подтасовывать факты; искажать
Тезаурус:
- "I'd been asking why she'd taken a clerical job when she'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she'd managed to wangle this daytime class."
- "Wangle?
- Behind the facade, behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates" hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes, there was a lot of wrong-doing, not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti, the Italian, by inaccurate measuring.
- I'll try and wangle you out of the cabbages tomorrow - so you can go bilberrying all day.
- (Somehow, he's managed to wangle his way into a trip to the States while we're stuck here writing the news.
- He came to wangle your legacy from you and you refused.
- He was certainly not the man for the various blue-blood, hard-man, gangsterish marine and commando outfits that he used every social connection to wangle his way into.
- "When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water.
- "You could probably wangle it," she said, squinting at her letter.
- They had regarded it rightly or wrongly as a wangle and as an attempt to ally capitalist forces against the worker.
- Some of them had no doubt spent most of the preceding year trying to wangle an invitation to play in the pro-am.
- "In that case," he said, at once lazily in control, "I think we should be able to wangle it so that you can start tomorrow."
- "We've managed to wangle her an apartment just a floor below Nicky and me," Florian volunteered cheerfully.
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