Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose occupation is covering or decorating walls with wallpaper; a paperer.
- noun Slang One who passes bad checks.
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- noun Someone who puts
wallpaper onwalls . - noun slang A
con man who passes badcheques orcounterfeit papermoney ; aforger , acon artist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper
- noun someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money
Etymologies
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Examples
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To call a paperhanger in, and so he made some paste.
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So as far as this one-armed paperhanger is concerned -- no blog, no grand strategist ....
Obama goes offshore 2010
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Preposterous as in ‘ I remember the time that I had my Tank’s turret aimed right at the the old paperhanger himself, but Hitler slipped on a banana peel and I missed.
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If a preposterous paperhanger could unleash terror and persecution on the Jewish citizens of one of the world's most advanced countries, then anti-Semitic movements everywhere — even in America — had to be reckoned with as an authentic menace, no matter how fantastic their aims or how slim their chances of success. 29
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Preposterous as in ‘ I remember the time that I had my Tank’s turret aimed right at the the old paperhanger himself, but Hitler slipped on a banana peel and I missed.
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He cited Pacelli's dismay that a U.S. bishop once had derided Hitler of being a "bad paperhanger" because of its diplomatic implications.
Insights into Vatican's diplomacy before World War II emerge from archives 2006
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Since you cite Hitler, among others, I'd like to point out that many people in the U.S. and Britain ridiculed him as a 'paperhanger.'
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Restraint is what the rest of the world showed when they dismissed a crazy Austrian paperhanger and his nutty book, “Mein Kampf.”
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Her father, Samuel Lerner, was a painter and paperhanger, and so was mine.
Ideas of Class 2007
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That Austrian boy whom Chaplin accused of having made off with his mustache had done it again but, as usual, not in the way the paperhanger intended.
Archive 2007-03-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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