Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - double-cross
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noun Date: 1834 1. a. an act of winning or trying to win a fight or match after agreeing to lose it b. an act of betraying or cheating an associate 2. a cross between first-generation hybrids of four separate inbred lines (as in the production of hybrid seed corn) ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ v to cheat someone, especially after you have already agreed to do something dishonest with them (Shorty's murder was blamed on a gang he'd double-crossed in the past.) - double cross n - double-crosser n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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{v.} To promise one thing and deliver another; to deceive. * /The lawyer double-crossed the inventor by manufacturing the gadget instead of fulfilling his promise to arrange a patent for his client./ Compare: SELL DOWN THE RIVER, TWO-TIME. ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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