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A new ballot initiative would make it difficult for anyone to claim the legal standing to challenge gerrymandering

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Political skulduggery is afoot in Missouri

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Donald Trump is 'turning on Jared Kushner'
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Why Investors Can't Get Enough of Tajikistan's Debt
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.


Risky bonds issued by poorer countries are all the rage among investors. Some bankers worry the frenzy will end badly.

The story of how London expanded so swiftly at the turn of the 20th century is one of financial ingenuity, bold risk-taking and low skulduggery

turn on

1. phrasal verb

When you turn on a piece of equipment or a supply of something, you cause heat, sound, or water to be produced by adjusting the controls.

I want to turn on the television. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

She asked them why they hadn't turned the lights on. [VERB noun PARTICLE]

2. phrasal verb

If someone or something turns you on, they attract you and make you feel sexually excited.

[informal]

The body that turns men on doesn't have to be perfect. [VERB noun PARTICLE]

[Also VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]

Synonyms: arouse, attract, excite, thrill   More Synonyms of turn on

3. See also turn-on

4. phrasal verb

If you say that someone turns on a particular way of behaving, you mean that they suddenly start behaving in that way, and you are often alsosuggesting that this is insincere.

[informal]

He could also turn on the style when the occasion demanded. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]

5. phrasal verb

If someone turns on you, they attack you or speak angrily to you.

Demonstrators turned on police, overturning vehicles and setting fire to them. [VERB PARTICLEnoun]

He turned on Pete and accused him of being mixed up in drugs. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

6. phrasal verb

If something turns on a particular thing, its success or truth depends on that thing.

The plot turns on whether Ilsa will choose her lover or her husband. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

skulduggery

skʌlˈdʌɡ(ə)ri/

noun

1. underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities.

   
   

   "a firm that investigates commercial skulduggery"

be all the rage
old-fashioned

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to be very popular at a particular time:

Long hair for men was all the rage in the 70s.