"to bilk" with object not a person

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't "bilking your lodgings" just another way of saying "bilking your
landlord"? I think you will find that every non-person ends up being
an institution representing people.

DanG

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> is the trans. sense with object not a person interesting?
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> FWIW, IMO, it is. I'd like to see the usage recalled to life.
> Why bilk the language? ;-)
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