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The reality: The publisher will steal your idea, have it stripped down for tropes, and sell the tropes on some havey-cavey Stolen Ideas market down by the docks.

Publishing Myths Contest! Editorial Anonymous 2009

Rapidfire bangbangs echoed off the low-hanging cavey clouds.

Flicker 2009

The marriage has had a havey-cavey start, for which you will doubtless come up with an explanation to satisfy the gossiping tongues of the ton.

Slightly Married Balogh, Mary 2003

Truth was sometimes not the same as reality-this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the center of his divided nature.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

He was more than ever convinced there was something havey-cavey going on and it intrigued him.

The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996

When he attempted to explain about betrothals and impatient Burnhams, Lady Bertram only gazed coldly down her patrician nose at him and demanded what he was thinking of to subject his daughter to the scandal that must arise if she were married so soon upon her return and in such a havey-cavey way.

The English Witch Chase, Loretta 1988

They were shy virgins at adultery and the women were the horny ones or the cavey ones, as Val used to say.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

They were shy virgins at adultery and the women were the horny ones or the cavey ones, as Val used to say.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

They were shy virgins at adultery and the women were the horny ones or the cavey ones, as Val used to say.

The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

` ` D'ye think you're to be free to plunder the faulds and byres of a gentle Elliot as if they were an auld wife's hen's-cavey? ''

The Black Dwarf 1898