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- noun Plural form of
Houdini .
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Examples
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Police, generally unaccountable to anyone but themselves, are veritable Houdinis when it comes to extricating themselves from a jam, as we have seen in the appalling case of Ian Bush.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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You'd say, "We're the Houdinis!" which could only be followed by, "Ta-Da!"
Harmon Leon: Harry Houdini and His Cunning Stunts at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Harmon Leon 2011
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Houdinis escapes were from milk cans and mailbags and steamer trunks.
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The undisputed Houdinis of English football, though, are Altrincham – the Robins were relegated, but not relegated, from the Conference for three successive seasons between 2005 and 2008.
xxHas a team ever been relegated from the same division two years in a row? | The Knowledge 2011
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You'd say, "We're the Houdinis!" which could only be followed by, "Ta-Da!"
Harmon Leon: Harry Houdini and His Cunning Stunts at the Contemporary Jewish Museum Harmon Leon 2011
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At the Jewish Museum you can see posters from every stage of Houdinis career, each one more and more dramatic: Houdini surrounded by the forces of evil, sometimes being handcuffed by menacing policeman.
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They looked like a dozen Harry Houdinis, all having failed the same water-tank escape trick.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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They looked like a dozen Harry Houdinis, all having failed the same water-tank escape trick.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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They looked like a dozen Harry Houdinis, all having failed the same water-tank escape trick.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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For those of us who warned against kicking a Middle East hornets 'nest, to assume that now it is simply a question of timing would be to assume that the neo-con Houdinis who gave us Vietnam-in-the-desert are out of tricks.
Gary Hart: End this Evasion on Permanent Army Bases in Iraq 2008
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