Smart-money

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of smart money. alt-of, alternative, historical, uncountable

    "The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently."

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"The reader may remember that Mr Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little horse, as a kind of smart-money for the punishment which he imagined he had suffered innocently."

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