Brewer's: Committing Falsehood

Swindling.

The Earl of Rosebery pointed out that the expression “committing false-hood” in Scotch law was synonymous with what in England was called swindling (April 25th, 1885).

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