chancer

• “Crazytown tastic! ... andy: all i can find for the word chancer is a scheming individual. no french translation. they must b mad! ...”

  Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

• “Did you see the one where, James I think from the first series looked a cert for the final and then turned out that he was 'chancer' and could not stick at anything.”

  Living For The Weekend

• “As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds.”

  How Should the West Respond to Putin's Threat?

• “I still think this latter case is beyond what was envisaged and could be considered to be "chancer" behaviour - what Ashcroft/Flying Lion is doing is far more like giving cash, and the costs are disproportionate.”

  Full Market Value: Claw Back from Con Air Tories?

• “The families of two of serial killer Peter Tobin's victims have branded him a "chancer" after he missed another court appearance through illness.”

  Your Local Guardian | Sutton

• “Mr Callely, who was banned from the Seanad for 20 days without pay for deliberately misrepresenting his normal place of residence to claim travel expenses, claimed he had been painted as a "chancer" and "a rogue" and "thoroughly despicable".”

  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “These included such horrific insults as 'chancer', 'communist', 'corner boy' and 'yahoo'.”

  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “In previous times he would have been called a wide boy, a chancer.”

  Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room

• “I love the description “a wide boy, a chancer” because I have absolutely no idea what those expressions mean, and yet somehow they fit!”

  Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room

• “But although I've long reckoned him to be a grade 1 careerist and a bit of a chancer, I've always strangely liked him, can appreciate his strengths, certainly his hard work, and at times his sheer balls when defending the indefensible.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

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