kick-you-and-run

Updated: May 8, 2025

She was going to do the same thing to you, she said in it, but she had made up her mind that she couldn't work you so easy. It's all in that letter! Kind of a kick-you-and-run letter!" In his agitation Buck broke another spoke from the crumbling wheel. The parrot cracked his beak against the cage's bars and yawled: "It's the old army game, gents!"

Various - Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905