False pretences

The truth is we all live under false pretences much of the time; you just have to put on a bold front and brazen it through.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.115, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Nerve

I’ll say it for Nicholas Ignatieff – he was a bear-cat for nerve.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.57, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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