Blind each of one eye, they set to dealing their cards for beggar-my-neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

It would be wrong, though, to imagine that it has only been the weaker nations that have been hurt by Germany's beggar-my-neighbour policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why the single currency's fallen off the Lib Dems' agenda] Reference

How far beggar-my-neighbour competitive devaluations and protection will develop is hard to predict, but protectionist trends are there for all to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 predictions for the next 25 years] Reference

The capacity to look at a problem through the wrong lens and then advocate what are, in effect, go-it-alone, beggar-my-neighbour economic policies in the name of free markets and political sovereignty is breathtaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy] Reference

We should be offering to play our full part in any world deal to buy time for the US and China to change, while making sure we can act fast and flexibly to respond to a climate of beggar-my-neighbour trade and currency policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly] Reference

The most that could be said is that beggar-my-neighbour policies eventually added to the problems caused by ill-conceived monetary and fiscal policies: the failure to cut interest rates quickly enough, the failure to keep credit flowing, the failure in the US to keep banks in business and the insistence on running balanced budgets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global recovery's weakness raises possibility of trade war] Reference

Business groups such as the CBI are calling for a cut in the headline rate of corporation tax because the UK has failed to match recent cuts made by countries like Italy and the Netherlands, but this risks encouraging a beggar-my-neighbour Dutch auction on tax with the end result that corporation tax would eventually be cut to zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Budget 2008: Will the Budget winners come from the top or the bottom?] Reference

How could they have known that it was not beggar-my-neighbour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Mackenzie] Reference

'But there are rules ... even in beggar-my-neighbour,' said the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Mercenary] Reference

"No, sir; I have sometimes played at beggar-my-neighbour," answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth] Reference

Or again, as in the 1930s, the beggar-my-neighbour policy of competitive devaluation could have gained unstoppable momentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [EUobserver.com - Headline News] Reference

Diplomacy is after all a simple game -- even elementary -- a magnificent beggar-my-neighbour which we continue to play into eternity. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Mercenary] Reference

Bank of England governor's Mervyn King's attempts to talk the pound down had a shameful whiff of beggar-my-neighbour about it, but Portugal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fool.co.uk - Headlines] Reference

My guide told me the homes belong to farmers - all of them engaged in a beggar-my-neighbour competition to build the biggest and swankiest house.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

It was so often her pack that there must have been an unfair allotment of knaves in it when dealt -- you know what that means in beggar-my-neighbour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

Mrs. Orange had left baby on a shelf near Mr. Orange while he played at beggar-my-neighbour, and had asked him to keep his eye upon her now and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Romance] Reference

The last time this sort of thing happened - in the 1930s - the outcome was a devastating round of beggar-my-neighbour devaluations, plus protectionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake] Reference

In Europe governments have casually played beggar-my-neighbour politics, with countries launching deposit-guarantee schemes that destabilise banks elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taylor Marsh] Reference

Our table is in the corner here, where the gentlemen can have their wineglass of negus, and their egg-sandwich, and their quiet game at beggar-my-neighbour, and look on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Romance] Reference

Not all the seductions of loo, limited to three pence, nor even that most appropriately designated game, beggar-my-neighbour -- could withdraw him from his blest retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference

We need to work together with our socially-minded brethren abroad so that our plans to end tax havens and to provide a decent fiscal policy are not undermined by beggar-my-neighbour politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Towards resumed growth and deepening globalisation - to the benefit of millions more than will lose by the process - or down towards beggar-my-neighbour protectionism again, deflation and even war?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

If Beelzebub had arisen and offered to play beggar-my-neighbour for his soul, Aristide would have agreed; especially after the large whisky and soda and the Mumm Cordon Rouge and the Napoleon brandy which Eugene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference

The Guardian's take on the outcome of the G20 meeting is that 'while the summit did not descend into beggar-my-neighbour economics, neither did it live up to the prime minister's claim that it was "the day the world came together"'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From www.politics.co.uk] Reference

If surplus countries fail to offset that shift, through expansion in aggregate demand, the world is inevitably caught in a "beggar-my-neighbour" battle: everybody seeks desperately to foist excess supplies on to their trading partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alpha.Sources] Reference

So far, as these 35 captains of industry know well, despite a 25% devaluation in the pound, exports stubbornly flatline as every country cuts its own consumer demand while dreaming that beggar-my-neighbour exports will help them escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Fianna Fáil are promoting a beggar-my-neighbour approach, in the hope that by dividing the country, by isolating and demonising particular sections in our society, they can pretend that those sectors alone can carry the burden of adjustment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labour Press Office - Press Release Summaries] Reference

However, as I have said, Lord Palmerston effectually cleared Crockford's, and it almost seemed, from the evidence of those who knew Crockford's best, that they never played anything there but old-fashioned whist for threepenny points, patience, and beggar-my-neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins]

Then on another evening we might encourage the men to play progressive games like draughts, halma, picture lotto, spillikins, ping-pong, and beggar-my-neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference

People aren't such fools as to start playing beggar-my-neighbour with Ascher, Stutz & Co. The whole world knows that their firm has money enough to go on paying lawyers right on until the day of judgment. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossamer 1915] Reference

Plays beggar-my-neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference

The rich, isolated, beggar-my-neighbour individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [MercatorNet] Reference