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БОРЗЫМИ ЩЕНКАМИ брать, давать кому iron or humor NP instrum Invar adv fixed WO

(to take or give as a bribe) something other than money

token(s) (of gratitude).

From Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General («Ревизор»), 1836. Borzoi puppies («борзые щенки») were what Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, a character in the play, admitted to accepting as bribes.