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This tale, I need hardly say, is a mere translation; as is shown by the Kathá s.s. "Both jackal and fox are nicknamed Joseph the Scribe (Tálib Yúsuf) in the same principle that lawyers are called landsharks by sailors."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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I don't think she'll be easy prey for the "landsharks" when she grows up.
14-Year-Old New Zealand Girl Drives Off Attacking Shark With Boogie Board 2010
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I don't think she'll be easy prey for the "landsharks" when she grows up.
14-Year-Old New Zealand Girl Drives Off Attacking Shark With Boogie Board 2010
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The people behind this scam are the same landsharks and flim-flam men who polluted the global marketplace with their snake oil and toxic sludge.
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The people behind this scam are the same landsharks and flim-flam men who polluted the global marketplace with their snake oil and toxic sludge.
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Joseph the Scribe (Tálib Yúsuf) in the same principle that lawyers are called landsharks by sailors.
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First litter was ten healthy little landsharks, almost four years ago.
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More of the landsharks saw her, but not before she saw what they were after.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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It saw her, slashed sidewise with its tusks at one of the landsharks that was trying to get at it, and then raised its trunk and trumpeted in savage salute.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
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There were too many landsharks, and they were fast.
THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983
tim_retep commented on the word landsharks
landsharks - crimps and lawyers and such festing the slums of seaport towns. (nautical)
July 31, 2009