wheeze
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9.7
- noun
- /wiːz/
- Slang
:
truco
- -...wheezing....
Examples
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"You will?" she asked, her voice low and miraculously wheeze-free.
Fiction book (1999) -
Do not agree to have the interest canceled in exchange for inflation-adjusted principal, which is a new wheeze they have come up with.
Blog text (9) -
What a cracking wheeze!
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Jolly good wheeze, what?
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Along with the swathe of new taxes, his last wheeze has induced our political masters to burden us with.
Blog text (10) -
The Mastercard isn't the last gasp of the credit card, but it's, I don't know, a tired and defeated wheeze.
Blog text (20) -
It seems any wheeze to elicit a few shekels from the brain dead was deemed par for the course, and the Vatican keeps up this charade today for tradition's sake, apparently!
Blog text (24) -
The idea of using social media influencers to promote the product was quite a wheeze.
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His plan to get out of the meeting early was a clever wheeze.
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They devised a wheeze to save money on their travel expenses by carpooling.
How Clever
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wheeze used as British slang for a clever 'trick' came later, and a helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone giving a quiet whee or small laugh when they have a smart idea. That's why a wheeze means a clever or amusing 'trick'.