" or "is there a wink and a nod that we need to win at all costs?

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The West's conditions were given with a wink and a nod.

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In a short preface Mr Kynaston says that his intention was to demythologise the City which had thought of itself as a village in which a man's word was his bond and discipline was administered by a nod and a wink from the governor of the Bank of England.

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But that needs skilled staff of the type that used to fill even the lowest ranks of the Bank of England, famed for supervising with a nod and a wink.

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There can be a nonverbal wink and nod.

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Sources close to Najib and Abdullah say neither is about to go for the No.2 party post - but they concede that "a nod and wink" from Mahathir could mean a whole new ball game.

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There were a number of wink winks and nod nods.

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