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"dirty pool" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is used to describe an unfair or underhanded action. For example, "It was dirty pool for Bob to accuse Jeff of something he was not responsible for."
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dirty pool
noun
Foul play, misconduct, underhandedness.
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That's dirty pool, Severson.
"That's dirty pool," he drawled.
That to me is dirty pool".
Anyway, doesn't the dirty pool happen every year?
There's a lot of dirty pool going on".
"The government doesn't play dirty pool," Mr. Stamboulidis said.
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Brown leaves drifted in dirty pools in the butts of chairs.
Nkuzo was among them, and her photos – of dirty pools of stagnant water and empty taps, of people scrabbling for firewood in the bush and shacks bathed in darkness after sunset – testify to the gulf between expectations and outcomes that has accompanied liberation.
The targets of the Oracle-backed investigation expressed outrage this evening, suggesting that the company was guilty of the same dirty-pool tactics of which it has long accused Microsoft.
It tasted sour, like a dirty swimming pool recently bombed with chlorine.
Sulky and complaining, they fritter away the days watching television and lounging by their dirty swimming pool while getting quietly soused.
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