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Someone who wants the trophy without the race, the relationship without the risk.
means A person who gains an advantage or avoids a loss by breaking the rules or being dishonest, especially in games, tests, or relationships.
from From 'cheat,' which started in the 1300s–1400s as a legal term: an 'escheat' was property that reverted to a feudal lord when a tenant died without heirs. Officers who handled these escheats got a reputation for seizing goods unfairly or through trickery, and 'escheat' got clipped down to 'cheat,' sliding from a dry legal process into a word for swindling and deceiving — the bureaucratic shortened into the criminal.
- origin
- from old tax collectors who skimmed escheats illegally
- irony
- usually most afraid of being cheated themselves
- psychology
- often about ego repair, not love or lust
- detection
- overcorrecting honesty is a classic tell