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cornering ⇨ corner game; cornering noun a confidence trick in which payment is received before the promised delivery of goods or sexual services will take place 'around the corner' – the delivery, of course, is never made UK, 1956
See:- (a)round the corner
- (the) elephant in the corner
- a tight corner
- all corners of the earth
- all corners of the world
- amen corner
- around the corner
- back (one or oneself) into a corner
- back oneself into a corner
- back/paint somebody/yourself into a corner
- be backed into a corner
- be in a tight corner
- box (oneself) into a corner
- box (someone) into a corner
- catty-corner
- corner the market
- corner the market on
- corner the market on (something)
- cut corners
- cut corners, to
- distant corner of the world
- drive into a corner
- fight (one's) corner
- fight your corner
- four corners of the earth, the
- from all corners of the world
- from all four corners of the world
- from the corner of (one's) eye
- have (someone or an animal) cornered
- have (someone) in (one's) corner
- have a corner on the market
- have cornered
- have in corner
- hole-and-corner
- hole-in-the-corner
- in (one's) corner
- in a (tight) corner
- in a bind
- in a corner
- in a tight corner
- in a tight corner/spot
- in someone's corner
- in your corner
- just around the corner
- just around/round the corner
- kiss and cry corner
- kitty-corner
- kitty-cornered
- out (of) the corner of (one's) eye
- out of the corner of eye
- out of the corner of one's eye
- out of the corner of your eye
- paint (oneself) into a corner
- paint oneself into a corner
- paint yourself into a corner
- the elephant in the corner
- the four corners of the earth
- the four corners of the world
- turn a corner
- turn the corner
- turn the corner, to
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