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Wallet-screw
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The situation of reassuring a customer of the value of his or her purchase by charging as much for it as possible. the customers are filled with a warm afterglow and are sure it must be good because it was expensive. mutually rewarding in different ways for all parties. example rather than shop for a bargain, chris would go to one of the big stores and get a good wallet-screw.
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Wallop, английский
- To devour ravenously. example the duck rice at four seasons is really great. i walloped about three plates of it, much to the horror and consternation of my friends.
- [1] to move along in a rapid, reckless, awkward way. in this sense the word is derived directly from the middle english walopen meaning to gallop. [2] to beat soundly, thrash, or overwhelmingly defeat. it is hard to see how this second meaning could have developed from the former, and some sources suggest it arose spontaneously after 1514 when king henry viii, furious that french amphibious raiders had burned the english town of brighton to the ground, ordered admiral wallop to retaliate. the english fleet then rampaged along the coast of france destroying twenty-one towns and villages and making the admiral’s name a synonym for defeat or thrashing.
Waller buddy, английский
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