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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Double Dealing

Professing one thing and doing another inconsistent with that promise.

“[She] was quite above all double-dealing. She had no mental reservation.” —Maria Edgeworth.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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