swindle sheet
Americannoun
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an expense account.
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a log sheet, as kept by a trucker, cab driver, hourly worker, or the like.
noun
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Origin of swindle sheet
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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On the swindle sheet were at least two gold-plated Daimlers�one of them upholstered in six zebra skins and costing $42,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
After his famous ride, Paul Revere turned in a swindle sheet, according to Edward J. Cronin, Massachusetts secretary of state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rarely did his expense accounts contain the creative writing and fantastic arithmetic of the standard swindle sheet.
From Time Magazine Archive
To initiate voters into this Congressional mystery William Pickett Helm, oldtime syndicate writer, has written Washington Swindle Sheet published this week by Albert & Charles Boni of Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first day wasn't bad; we sat around, drank beer and ate huge thick sirloins on the swindle sheet, and told all the stories we knew.
From Project Gutenberg
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