0 to steal something of little value: --
Who's filched my pencils?
1 to steal something of little value: --
OK – who filched my pencils?
So there is no point in trying to frighten us with the idea of our sovereignty being secretly filched away from us.
I do not think that any employer should endeavour to filch the ideas of his employees in that way.
We have liberty, but day after day we see liberty being filched away, and eaten into.
We are always complaining that good agricultural land is being filched for other purposes.
It was not in substitution for money that we filched from the local authorities; it was genuine additional money.
Per-haps, more important than that, it will not be possible to filch export production for the home market, which is happening even now.
In 1981, they had no reduced rate band to filch, so they did not increase the thresholds.
It is in that way that other liberties could be filched too.
