spiv

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• They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches.
• She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.
• The spiv, the showman; Mr Blair promised a brave new world - a shining castle on the hill - very Reaganish... a promise he most certainly could not uphold as there was no hill, the castle was made of papier mache and when the rains came it melted away...... The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move| Rafael Behr
• What such a history would particularly need to convey in relation to higher education is the paradigm shift brought about since 1992 by the increasing influence of the spivs in suits (aka managers).
• I thought the art of the spiv had died out years ago.
• We used to have the yobbo (Clarkson), the spiv (quentin) and the boy racer (Needel), now we have two geriatrics and one in training. The last one (almost) « Transmission – BBC Top Gear
• Chairman of the Mid-Hants Watercress Line, David Snow, dressed as a spiv for the occasion, said the weekend was a resounding success with the first day attracting bigger crowds than last year.
• Which free market, you don't mean the massive military industrial complex do you, or do you mean that market where the spivs in London flood the country with money which massively inflates house prices then demand more from the Government to settle bad gambling debts, meanwhile Joe Bloggs loses everything, his job, his house and his life savings. The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash
• The roots lie in the British 80s and 90s -- two decades defined by the "chav" and "spiv" culture that was the fruit of the Murdoch 'n' Maggie as in Margaret Thatcher union. Martin Lewis: A Big Pile of Murdoch: The Ultimate Legacy of Rupert Merde...
• Another accusation thrown at the market is that its light regulatory touch could open the door to spivs and hopeless cases.