a sly dog

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a sly dog

Someone who, through cunning, devious, or dishonest means, achieves a fortuitous outcome. What a sly dog, he managed to get a copy of the test so he could memorize the answers ahead of time!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ismahel	-	Biblical Latin
Laura	LAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)	English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa
Virgilius	-	Late Roman
Boban	-	Serbian, Macedonian
Aston	['æstən]
Keysha	-	African American (Rare)