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finagle [fɪˈneɪgəl] vb Informal
1. (tr) to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion; wangle 2. to use trickery or craftiness on (a person) [probably changed from dialect fainaigue] finagler n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translations finagle vt (inf) → deichseln (inf); to finagle something out of somebody → jdm etw abluchsen; to finagle one’s way out of something → sich aus einer Sache herausmogeln 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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Saying all will be better, they just finagle more dollars from the worker bees to throw at the problems. In the first, he adds a recipe-defying ingredient to round out the taste of his "Everything-but-the-Kitchen-Sink Soup," and in the final tale, failing to finagle an underhanded victor), in a less-than-friendly card game, he walks away before it's over, proclaiming, "I may not always win, but I never lose People pray to Father Vidicon, who they want to make a saint, to help them when Finagles General Principle operates in their lives. |
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