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Chantage

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A subsidy paid to a journal. Certain journals will pronounce a company to be a “bubble one” unless the company advertises in its columns; and at gaming resorts will publish all the scandals and mischances connected with the place unless the proprietors subsidise them, or throw a sop to Cerberus. This subsidy is technically known as Chantage in France and Italy.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Chancellor
Chancellor of England (The)
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Chancery
Chaneph
Change
Changeling
Chant du Depart
Chantage
Chanticleer
Chaonian Bird (The)
Chaonian Food
Chaos (kaos)
Chap
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Chapeau-bras
Chapel
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