While victims are reluctant to talk about their misfortune once they have been cheated, they often boast of being offered superior returns while the swindle is unfolding.
(They cheat once by riding the train one stop between Wapping and Rotherhithe rather than plodding through the choking infra-Thames tunnel, which seems fair enough).
They will learn, as Corporal Randolph had, that death, which they once cheated, will chase them down in rest homes and cancer wards.
During a contentious conference call last week, Wilder delivered an unsparing assessment of Ortiz: "Once a cheat, always a cheat".
In either case, once the cheat or cheats are in place, the game becomes easier to play, whether it is because you have better and stronger weapons and ammunition or, in the case of Perfect Dark, unlimited life.
If she cheats on you once, she'll cheat on you again.
Prosecutors say the law simply prohibits disclosure of the investigation: Once cheating has been proven, they maintain, the testing service has full authority to report the outcome to third parties.
Bill once bragged, "I cheat my boys every chance I get.
Once the cheating starts, it's natural to impute it to others.
Her son Zach gets his underage girlfriend an abortion; Peter once again cheats on her, this time with her old friend Ramona Lytton, played by Connie Nielson.
