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(verb) - To find a ready means of evading a law or regulation. Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) the Irish orator and agitator boasted, "I can drive a coach-and-six horses through any Act of Parliament," in allusion to the loose manner in which parliamentary bills were drafted. --Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
April 22, 2018