The word 'snaffle' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning to obtain or acquire something usually by trickery or slyness. For example, you can say, "I managed to snaffle the last piece of cake before anyone else got it."
In the final few minutes, Best lost possession dribbling out of his own box, Colin Suggett hit the bar and Neil Martin shot over it, before Bobby Charlton missed an excellent chance to snaffle victory.
Alternatively, they could choose a political grandee capable of taking the world stage, but liable to snaffle prerogatives from national governments in the process.
And it may snaffle some from other operators, too.
These are typically employees or contractors who are given access to sensitive information, which they snaffle via flash drive, mobile phone or e-mail.
But in this field, the best answer is probably to go back to nature or, at least, to snaffle her best ideas.Natural enzymes, which catalyse the reactions that make life possible, generally turn out only one enantiomer.
And given the tendency of the ruling classes in these three to snaffle the petrodollars, it is easy to see why more exports might not mean less poverty.In all really poor countries, the formal economy is a small fraction of the whole.
Mr Sachs envisages funnelling most of it through national governments, who would have to train many more teachers, engineers, nurses and other professionals, and then persuade the best of them not to emigrate to rich countries.But is it not likely that corrupt elites will snaffle the bulk of the extra money, either directly or by awarding contracts to their cronies?
Some are devout; others snaffle the odd beer or marijuana spliff.
While American companies will be able to snaffle up British companies, no non-American is allowed to buy American broadcasting stations.
WHAT lies behind the rapidly arranged deal whereby UniCredit, one of Italy's largest banks, will snaffle up Capitalia, a domestic rival?
At the moment, each year the top 20% of Americans snaffle around two-thirds of the $100 billion-worth of general tax incentives for retirement saving.The problem is that the tax breaks do not seem to persuade the rich to save more overall; they simply shift their money from ordinary saving vehicles to tax-advantaged ones, such as Individual Retirement Accounts.
