| Years ago, my older brother tried to convince me that whenever he and his friends played penny-ante poker, a police raid was in the offing. |
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| And for penny-ante warlords, the collapse of Western sponsorship has driven them to religion. |
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| I like to gamble, but I've always kept myself on the amateur and penny-ante side. |
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| Gambling is sufficiently frowned upon that even penny-ante rounds of dominoes are not played at the Masonic Lodge. |
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| Then opportunity knocks when he and his penny-ante friends decide to go into the bookmaking business. |
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| As you say, take away their penny-ante bridge club and they very well might start on us. |
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| I am confounded by this penny-ante morality of people who know nothing about the social sector, because they are incompetent. |
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| Some penny-ante, dime-store masterminds think a team of three or four people is enough. |
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| He should stop wasting his time taunting Rick Perry with penny-ante bets and put his lucre to good use. |
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| Besides, we're not interested in penny-ante crimes like that. |
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| We were penny-ante criminals getting something for next to nothing. |
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| Over the years, penny-ante games were allowed to be played not only in people's homes, but also in mobile home parks and publicly-owned community centers. |
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| The Russians look foolish because they seemed to screw up at the penny-ante stuff. |
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| The second thing is that the amounts of money available are no more than penny-ante stakes, pounds 20 here, pounds 36 there. |
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