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bent as a nine-bob note
vs
queer as a three-dollar bill
bent as a nine-bob note
adj
Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded.
Ostentatiously homosexual.
queer as a three-dollar bill
How often have the words
bent as a nine-bob note
and
queer as a three-dollar bill
occurred in a corpus of books?
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