dirty pool
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He then plays some dirty pool by showing a headline from The New York Times about the buyer of the painting, cropping out the byline of the correspondent David D. Kirkpatrick.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2021
“Then she played dirty pool, and said, ‘If you go, the students might not enjoy it because they would be worrying about you,’” Barb recalled.
From Washington Times • Mar. 7, 2016
"That's dirty pool," said Robert Rehm, a Verizon Communications shareholder who also recently retired as a director of the Association of BellTel Retirees, which represents former Verizon workers.
From Reuters • Dec. 20, 2013
From now on it is dirty pool and judo in the clinches.
From Time • Jun. 27, 2013
Hence they proceed with music to a large, dirty pool, called Freeman's Well, where they dismount, and draw up in a body, and then rush through the mud as fast as they can.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 by Various
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