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have a shufti
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have a shufti  (British old-fashioned)
to have a quick look at something She'd brought her wedding photos in so I thought I might have a quick shufti.
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Just then, though, to truly add injury to insult, the moment you stick your head under the bonnet to take a shufti at the Heath Robinson repairs being executed, one of the other gypsies will lean his weary elbow on the bloody thing and down it will crash, catching you a corker on your already sore skull and bouncing your teeth off the radiator cap.
Going native? Prepare for some unusual rustic adventures as you delve ... by Parsons, Rory / The Sofia Echo (Sofia, Bulgaria)
In a way I'm sorry for Bernie because he didn't see it coming, whereas any woman could have guessed that an attractive potential billionairess with the children off her hands and an eye for the future would at least consider it was time to take a shufti at the alternatives.
Tall order for Bernie on divorce grid by Birmingham Mail (England)
Have a shufti at the interior of the Peking-Paris model - and wonder at the gear stick.
Drive the road to perdition in style by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
 
 
 
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