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  • The Champions League is always a bit cagey. The Sun
  • KURTZ: When Lou Dobbs abruptly quit CNN, he was kind of cagey about what he'd do next. CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2009
  • Chances were at a premium in a cagey first half ruined by high winds and a total inability to mount dangerous attacks. The Sun
  • He's acting mighty cagey for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
  • Even unscrupulous pragmatists might want to let their pragmatism rein in their deviousness: even today, computer-searchable archived text seems fundamentally not to be the best medium for winning influence by, um, cageyness. Tax Freedom Redux
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  • Chances were at a premium in a cagey first half ruined by high winds and a total inability to mount dangerous attacks. The Sun
  • I was surprised to hear the former police commissioner of Mumbai, M.N. Singh, argue on my television show that he understood the cageyness of the government on this score. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
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  • With so much on the line I expect the games to be very cagey, tactical affairs for the first hour or so. The Sun
  • Coach Bob Dwyer is playing it cagey over his choice of a replacement skipper.
  • The cagey bartender was pocketing the money for himself and replenishing bottles with his own supply purchased at a nearby liquor store.
  • He is cagey, though, on the extent to which he will have room to manoeuvre in the business of player recruitment.
  • Tassie is cagey about the worth of his license, but the 30 or so permits in his zone are worth more than $4 million each.
  • The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer.
  • With so much on the line I expect the games to be very cagey, tactical affairs for the first hour or so. The Sun
  • Onto the match and the first half could best be described as "cagey" - this is the polite way of saying it was a bit dull. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • I sense a certain cageyness because of what happened when Christianity "ate" the Last Big Philosophical Development qua, modernism -- it stopped being Christian and became liberal. Philocrites: Flirting with Emergent, part III
  • He's acting mighty cagey for a guy who just reads the papers, don't you think?
  • Insightful, if a bit cagey, critiques of modern political philosophy.
  • FROM one cagey, cautious display to another. The Sun
  • Chances were at a premium in a cagey first half ruined by high winds and a total inability to mount dangerous attacks. The Sun
  • He captures all the action and introduces us to an eccentric gallery of characters that includes: Dick Hathaway, the crotchety legend who once caught a bluefish from a helicopter; Janet Messineo, a recovering alcoholic who says that striped bass saved her life; and Lev Wlodyka, a cagey local whose next fish will spark a storm of controversy and throw the tournament into turmoil. The Big One by David Kinney: Book summary
  • It was a cagey old affair. The Sun
  • Big games will remain tight, cagey affairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Though still cagey about the new novel's subject matter, he does say it will deal with terrorism and with a hostage crisis.
  • He was scrupulous about listing himself as a co-founder of Greenpeace and was cagey about how many co-founders there were.
  • The rest of the league has been waiting for a belly flop, but the Giants' cagey right-hander refuses to wilt.
  • Khan scores the first point of the bout in a cagey first round as both boxers size each other up.
  • If the 25-year-old was less unassuming and more cagey, he would know that is not the sort of thing a team's talismanic striker is meant to say.
  • Gilbert was being very cagey about his future prospects yesterday.
  • A cagey opening frame went to O'Sullivan after his opponent missed a straightforward green.
  • At this stage of the evolution of semi-autonomous systems, they’re cagey about any theorizing that might seem to take the ultimate responsibility away from the driver.
  • The actor is a mite more cagey, however, as to his involvement with co-star Penelope Cruz.
  • It was a cagey old affair. The Sun
  • The email states Red Cross officials were "cagey" and gave only "roundabout answers" to queries. Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • Big games will remain tight, cagey affairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Champions League is always a bit cagey. The Sun
  • The Champions League is always a bit cagey. The Sun
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  • a cagey avoidance of a definite answer
  • I had the distinct impression that he would not appreciate the wrong answer so I decided to play it cagey.
  • I've been dating Sam for months now, but just recently he's become very secretive and cagey around me.
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  • When I asked to meet him in person, his publicity people turned cagey, stoking my curiosity even more.
  • I actually told him about the nomination and he was a bit cagey about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even when our yearbook pictures were splattered around national headlines, I've stayed pretty cagey.
  • The first half was cagey with four penalties the only scores on the board. The Sun
  • When O'Hehir admits that Eagleton is "cagey" about his own beliefs, he glances lightly over a major difficulty: Eagleton affirms Christianity without ever affirming a single concrete proposition connected with it. Balderdash
  • This guy is not only funny and informative, but he's pretty "cagey" in getting the journalistic "goods" on the "bad guys. Greg Palast | The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom
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  • While some were cagey, to say the least, others had no such problems.
  • She's very cagey about her past life.
  • So they are cagey about letting the common herd assess their work.
  • At this stage of the evolution of semi-autonomous systems, they’re cagey about any theorizing that might seem to take the ultimate responsibility away from the driver.
  • Suddenly, caution was the watchword and she grew cagey and defensive, waiting for the chances to land in her lap.
  • As a result, agents are becoming even more cagey about developing raw talent.
  • The first half was cagey with four penalties the only scores on the board. The Sun
  • The number of new properties on the market surged in February but with buyers "cagey", the number of unsold houses across the country ballooned, the real estate industry says. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • When I asked to meet him in person, his publicity people turned cagey, stoking my curiosity even more.
  • I have PM'd jslay, who as a novice is being cagey about her location, her e mail, and other elements of her profile, notifying her of my son's family in San Antonio, TX who would be happy to have her help in exchange for a room and a REASONABLE LIVING WAGE. Maid for cooking and cleaning in exchange for a room
  • Chances were at a premium in a cagey first half ruined by high winds and a total inability to mount dangerous attacks. The Sun
  • Their cageyness doesn't prove they're guilty of anything more than careless recordkeeping -- which is OK if you're a clerk at a retail store, but NOT if you're a professional scientist. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Most of all, the book traces in breathtaking detail FDR’s revolutionary efforts with his New Deal legislation to transform the American political economy in order to save it, his forcefuland cageyleadership before and during World War II, and his lasting legacy in creating the foundations of the postwar international order. Traitor to His Class by H.W. Brands: Book summary
  • FROM one cagey, cautious display to another. The Sun
  • Dewar said Nicholson has been "cagey" but his office promised a response last week. Edmonton Sun
  • After a cagey opening Ireland settled. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rest of the league has been waiting for a belly flop, but the Giants' cagey right-hander refuses to wilt.
  • After a cagey opening Ireland settled. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a cagey old affair. The Sun
  • After a cagey opening Ireland settled. Times, Sunday Times
  • She is cagey about the terminology, though, and doesn't use it in the book.
  • I actually told him about the nomination and he was a bit cagey about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Isabella declares to be concerned only about helping her brother and shows herself to be a good actress, not making Angelo suspicious that she is disingenuous and plays a cagey game to trap him.
  • The cagey fox could not be easily trapped by the farmer.
  • He combines smooth people skills with cagey tactics.
  • He is intent on making people look good but not necessarily beautiful in his work and achieves this by capturing secretive, edgy or cagey subjects.
  • The more cagey British ministers become about the evidence, the more likely are their opponents, and the media, to continue obsessing on the issue.
  • a cagey lawyer
  • This arcane coffee drink was once the stuff of mystery, to be found only in chichi Italian restaurants, formulated by cagey old waiters wrestling with giant copper kettles that hissed like contemptuous dragons.
  • FROM one cagey, cautious display to another. The Sun
  • With so much on the line I expect the games to be very cagey, tactical affairs for the first hour or so. The Sun
  • Coach Bob Dwyer is playing it cagey over his choice of a replacement skipper.
  • There was a similar cageyness in Elena's reaction, first when we remarked on the close resemblance between her tinhlanga and the ones we saw on Julia's and Laurinda's pots, and then when I expressed surprise at her comment that an older Xihlahla woman had put on her timbita exactly the same decorationsets of three wavy horizontal linesthat Elena said she had "thought of" on her own: Audio 85 Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
  • So they are cagey about letting the common herd assess their work.
  • I actually told him about the nomination and he was a bit cagey about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • But when we ask about some production he's been doing for a new major-label girlband called RD he gets cagey. How Rinse FM, the radio station behind Dizzee Rascal and Katy B, keeps it salty
  • Big games will remain tight, cagey affairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's just a case of playing cagey, going careful, and not overstretching yourself.
  • The bird sellers are extremely cagey about sharing information, especially with press persons.
  • The first half was cagey with four penalties the only scores on the board. The Sun
  • National Congress international affairs spokesman Thabo Mbeki was "cagey" on the ANC's exact representations to Mr Vance. ANC Daily News Briefing

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