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snapper up

noun

  1. a person who snaps up bargains, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.

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Red snapper up to 30 pounds are the prize catch off the area�s numerous artificial reefs, but tasty grouper, triggerfish and amberjack also are around.

“I am—what do you call it?—a—a ‘snapper up of unconsidered trifles.’

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It is too Macbeth-like in the “snapper up of unconsidered trifles.”

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A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.—SHAKSPEARE.

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