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In economics, a beggar-thy-neighbour policy is an economic policy through which one country attempts to remedy its economic problems by means that tend to worsen the economic problems of other countries.
Beggar-my-neighbour, also known as strip jack naked, beat your neighbour out of doors, [1] or beat jack out of doors, [2] or beat your neighbour, [3] is a simple choice-free card game. It is somewhat similar in nature to the children's card game War , and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian ratscrew .
After that followed another comedy role in Beggar My Neighbour (1966–1968); this also starred Pat Coombs, June Whitfield and Peter Jones. Pat Coombs played the wife of Varney's character. Varney featured in The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) with Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan and George Cole.
Beggar My Neighbour is a British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and (later) Desmond Walter-Ellis. Made in black-and-white , it was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland.
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I vaguely remember 'Begger-my-neighbour' mentioned as a card game in Dicken's novel Great Expectations. I suspect this is the origin of the term? --Surturz 04:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Found it! Beggar-My-Neighbour--Surturz 04:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Beggar My Neighbour is an 1802 comedy play by the British author Thomas Morton. It premiered in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, then under the management of George Colman, on 10 July 1802. [1] [2] It received a poor reception from audiences. [3]
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