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prick the garter
vs
pricking at the belt
prick the garter
noun
Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”)
pricking at the belt
noun
Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”)
How often have the words
prick the garter
and
pricking at the belt
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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