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under false pretences |
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under false pretences if you do something under false pretences, you do it when you have lied about who you are or what you are doing The police charged him with obtaining money under false pretences. See sail under false coloursSee also: false How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He as good as told him that he'd come out under false pretences, that the whole affair was a swindle and that the road could not be made. In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. With this he showed them into a parlour where he kept them waiting, until the two women-servants had repaired thither, under false pretences, to see the play-actors; and having compared notes with them in the passage, and joined in a vast quantity of whispering and giggling, he at length went upstairs with Miss Snevellicci's name. |
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