词汇 | double-dealer |
词源 | double-dealer. Card playing gives us this term for a cheat. The word is hardly a new one, dating back to before 1547, when William Baldwin wrote in A Treatise of Moral Philosophie: “God . . . abhorreth . . . hypocrites and double dealers.” |
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