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bent as a nine-bob note
vs
faux
bent as a nine-bob note
adj
Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded.
Ostentatiously homosexual.
faux
adj
Fake or artificial.
How often have the words
bent as a nine-bob note
and
faux
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)