nobble

an attempt to nobble the jury.

the industry will try to nobble plans for further competition.

he intended to nobble Rose's money.

they nobbled him and threw him on to the train.

He tried to nobble one of the jurors .

people always tried to nobble her at parties.

Afraid not. Can't budge him. Your Minister nobbled him first.

" A sight of times better to be selling diments than nobbling about here."

You have nobbled the curate, or somebody else, who has got you a good place.

“Seekers are always the ones who get nobbled by the other team.”

All around it is a series of very odd tubercles and nobbles and bobbles.

In reality these are examples of poor negotiation by governments, a weakness that can also nobble their use of public money.