> Nobody yet has helped me with the odd phrase 'lurch merchant'...
Max:
Possibly "con-man".
20thC Australian slang has "lurcher", a rascal, a villain, from 16thC
"lurch" n a cheat or swindle / v to deceive, get the better of. (Green,
_Cassell/Slang_). Thus a lurch merchant (cf piss artist, spin meister,
bullshit merchant) would be one who engaged in cheating and swindling.
Robin
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