| 单词 | spiv |
| 例句 | Ms Kassabova’s book drips with scorn for the spivs, goons and far-off politicians whose greed and carelessness wreak such mischief and misery. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z She sounds like she’s auditioning for a cartoon about wartime spivs. The Gentlemen trailer – how ridiculous can Guy Ritchie's new movie get? 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He’s what we Britons call a spiv, a dandified minor crook, and his knees seem to stay perpetually bent, often grotesquely so. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Matilda’ Movement, and More Broadway Choreography 2013-06-07T22:02:24Z Mutt was entirely motivated by greed, a dim-witted spiv with a compulsion to gamble and develop ill-conceived get-rich-quick schemes. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z This was the era of the corruptly alluring spiv, the postwar black market and the reaction against socialist austerity fostered by a combination of the rightwing press and the subversive Ealing Comedy. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z We were the boys of Hue and Cry, who cornered Jack Warner's gang of spivs and racketeers on that bombsite by the Thames. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z The spivs and grotesques now running the country might have stepped whole from his pages, whipping up nationalism while discreetly betting against the pound and arranging second passports. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The welfare state was meant to have banished spivs. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-04T10:00:01Z Attenborough’s success as Pinkie saw him typecast as a spiv and hoodlum for the next few years, as he began to build his career as a leading man in the late 40s and early 50s. Richard Attenborough – a career in clips 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z His father was a spiv, at school he felt like a secret agent infiltrating the upper classes, and writing was a response to his growing sense of the futility of spookery. John Le Carr?: A Life Unmasked ? review 2010-12-10T21:45:00Z He conforms to the stereotype of every person who sees it as a spivs’ marketplace. Money squabbles before Emiliano Sala is even buried show game’s hard face | Daniel Taylor 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Again the sea splits for Farage, and again he looks more spiv than saviour. ‘We're reactivating the people’s army’: inside the battle for a hard Brexit 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z It would also be a green light for fraudsters, smugglers and spivs. What is the government's plan for Brexit? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Of course, there are spivs and money grubbers, as there are in any industry that has historically promised large and fast returns. Rock is the new jazz and vinyl's misleading revival: five things I've learned as Guardian music editor | Michael Hann 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Times are hard, and the informal economy is rife, meaning there are spivs everywhere making an ostentatious display of their wealth. Trump fears terrorists, but more Americans are shot dead by toddlers | Gary Younge 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Nigel Evans, a Tory backbencher, accused the government of “spiv Robert Mugabe antics” that he would condemn in his role as an international election observer. Brexit would be political arson, says David Miliband 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Others sport “recovering reptaholic” t-shirts that are equal parts spiv and goth - a bit like Only Fools and Horses with face tattoos. Lizard traffickers exploit legal loopholes to trade at world's biggest fair 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z As the spiv, Flash Harry, he was a ready source of nylons for the girls in the school and drink for the teachers. Obituary: George Cole - BBC News 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z "I can remember when people left IBM to start their own business, we considered them to be spivs … This country has changed beyond all recognition in terms of willingness to embrace entrepreneurs." Ken Olisa: entrepreneur, philanthropist and good governance advocate 2013-07-05T16:19:33Z He headed off to India and met a host of spivs, runners, fixers and Mr Bigs, who are referred to by their first names only. John Crace surveys the past year's cricket books for Wisden 2013-04-11T07:00:02Z I wrote: "If the price of making the City a haven for low-tax oligarchs and other assorted spivs is to turn London into a mobsters' paradise, then that is our lookout, they say." Like Cyprus, Britain should beware becoming a playground for Russia's rich 2013-03-24T19:35:07Z The scandal exposed what appeared to be a prevalent "spiv" culture in which bottles of champagne were on offer in exchange for fixing rates. IHT Rendezvous: Banking Culture Blasted in Backlash Against Greed 2012-06-29T13:59:04Z Alderman sidled up in the manner of Dad's Army's resident spiv Joe Walker with a pocketful of petrol coupons to shift at the policeman's ball. Praveen Kumar's rare style of swing bowling is as bold as it is old 2011-07-26T22:00:09Z No longer will the UK be Europe's offshore hedge fund, a paradise for the spivs and snake oil salesmen of the City peddling their worthless bits of paper. Budget 2011: Welcome to Planet Osborne 2011-03-24T07:00:06Z They were "spivs and gamblers", boomed business secretary Vince Cable last September. Banks: Getting away with it 2011-02-09T00:05:03Z The capital's bankers may be glorified spivs, but we need them to maintain a respectable balance of trade and not be swept aside in the next stage of globalised capitalism. Wheeling and dealing is in Britain's blood 2010-12-13T00:03:00Z In other words, some spiv gets hold of a bit of Royal Mail, decides there's no money in daily delivery to Muckle Flugga and persuades Ofcom to agree. The postal services bill is bad for postal services and bad for us 2010-12-09T17:00:00Z The prime minister, the future king of England, the team's most iconic player forced to play breakfast-time footsie with spivs in suits. World Cup 2018: what it means to lose out 2010-12-02T17:42:00Z At the time he seemed to represent the worst of capitalism, but even then he was no ordinary City spiv. In praise of ? George Soros 2010-10-27T23:01:00Z Does Vince Cable really want "spivs and gamblers" spinning their wheels in Monaco or Gibraltar rather than Berkeley Square? When the ship sinks, the elite grab all the lifeboats 2010-10-05T19:30:00Z The business secretary's words contrasted sharply with his description of bankers as "spivs and gamblers" in his controversial speech at the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool. John Rose to quit Rolls-Royce after 14 years at helm 2010-09-30T18:38:00Z Actors – one playing a spiv, for example, another an air-raid warden – are to help recreate the atmosphere as will the sound of sirens and dropping bombs. Blitz tour offers glimpse of Aldwych tube station as bomb shelter 2010-09-23T18:03:00Z The point is that Vince Cable, if he softened his language about the spivs in the City and monopolists in boardrooms, might find industrialists more ready to accept that he really is pro-business. Cable needs to speak softly 2010-09-22T20:14:00Z Millions of people are losing their jobs, savings and futures because of the actions of spivs and gamblers who pass for certain bank employees. A Treasury whinge at banks won't pull us from the mire 2010-08-03T20:00:00Z "It's been terrible, an absolute fiasco," moaned one spiv, who was generous enough to offer £30 for the press pass dangling around the Diary's neck. Denis O'Regan banned at Cheltenham for piling on the pounds during a race 2010-03-19T20:14:00Z |
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