"to bilk" with object not a person

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:01 PM -0400 9/30/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
>Quite so.
>
And, sad to say, every person ends up being a non-person.  Even Tony Curtis.

LH

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