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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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Mixen match. Someone in Ireland’s politics famously enriched the language with “smoke and daggers”, among other classics. And there’s a rock band in NZ called the Smokin’ Daggers. Beyond those influences, either of these blends might occasionally be intentional too.
No smoke and daggers, and no must-do session pulled from the pages of Runner’s World.
(http://www.athenryac.com/praise-training)
Besides the racket of economic exploitation, there are the smoke-and-daggers shenanigans of the military.
(http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/site_ … eep01.html)
Complete with magic mirrors and smoke-and-dagger tricks, the English can’t brag about their courts, either.
(http://www.shmoop.com/tale-of-two-citie … theme.html)
I love these points, they are perfect ways to connect yourself and your business to the community you serve. Leave all the cloak and mirrors behind and embrace the branding of you.
(http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/article/904/read.do)
I did not want to work for a dealer who viewed trades as a way to use “cloak and mirrors” to decieve one of my customers.
(http://christiancarguy.net/)
What is so important that our own government will shade the subject with cloak and mirrors?
Alien conspiracy
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Most of us probably don’t think of daggers as having a prominent place in the high-tech world of contemporary espionage, so “cloak and danger†may make more sense to some readers today. Though you still have to wonder about all those cloaks:
It is cloak-and-danger work, which means the 35-year old woman only wants to be known by her first name, Louise.
http://fahrusha.wordpress.com/2008/05/
It is riveting writing with the cloak-and-danger stuff that would make Ian Fleming jealous.
http ://www.amazon.com/All-Presidents-Men-Classic-Editions/dp/0684863553
Known as Oswald’s Mexico Mystery Tour, this phase of Kennedy assassination research is filled with cloak and danger deeds, odd happenings and coincidences, Oswald impersonators, missing tapes, straight out lying by top CIA officials, and Oswald’s own peculiar behavior.
http://oswaldsmother.blogspot.com/2009/ … exico.html
There’s also “coat and dagger,†which I find less interesting, but I include it as part of our project to document every reshaping in use in English:
Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950), best known for his coat and dagger novels, Scaramouche, Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, was the son of an Italian father and an English mother, both opera singers.
http://www.italian-language-study.com/i … riters.htm
But it is not only the usual coat-and-dagger-story.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=172 … fc6f926f13
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