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When you finagle something, you get it even though it was hard to get — and you do it by being clever in a slightly unfair way. You might bend a small rule, talk someone round, or use a trick that was not really meant to be used. It is not a word for stealing or for a serious crime. It sits in that grey place where people smile and shake their head at the same time. Americans say it more than British people, and it sounds spoken, a little old-fashioned, almost : someone finagled a better seat, finagled extra time, or finagled their way into a room they were not invited to. You can finagle a thing (get the thing) or finagle your way into or out of a situation. Informal. In careful writing people often pick a colder word like trick or manipulate, but those sound harsher; finagle keeps a wink in it.
用手段搞到、耍花招弄來（偏美式口語，帶點不公平，但不是公然搶）
組成An American verb from the 1920s. It probably mixes an old word fainaigue, “to renege” (to go back on a deal), with -le, a little ending that makes an action sound repeated or fidgety — the same kind of ending as in haggle. Inveigle may have coloured it too, though that is not certain.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
finagleverb/fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/
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To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
- finagle a day off work
- She finagled her way around so that her arms were now clasped around his neck. So as not to cause a scene, Jason began to sway with her as if they had intended to dance. “Where's your counterpart tonight, Mandy?” he asked with a sly smile. “I thought you and Carl Maycomb were seeing each other.” Mandy answered with a “humph,” indicating she didn't want to talk about Carl.
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To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
- finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
- Down the third-floor hallway, she noticed that the police tape had been removed from George Vandercloop's door. Did that mean Sunrise Village was now free to rent it to a new tenant? She tried the door knob and found it locked. Not that she expected she'd find anything more in the apartment than she'd seen the one time she'd finagled her way inside. Murder by chloroform didn't leave much evidence behind. She U-turned, made her way to the door with “Helen Dorgan” printed on [it] ...
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To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
- shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。